Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

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Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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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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Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

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Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

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

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Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it's own, & that we are all one Life.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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All nature seems at work.

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Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

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I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

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We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

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And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

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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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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

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