Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

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I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

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No man does anything from a single motive.

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Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

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The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

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Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

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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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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

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The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

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