Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

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And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

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How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

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An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

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The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

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