Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

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

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For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.

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For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

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

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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

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