Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.

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All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

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What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

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And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

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When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

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For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

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Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

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The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

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As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

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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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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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

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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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