Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

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

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

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A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

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In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

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Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

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