Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

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A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

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

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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

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A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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

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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

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I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

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Her skin was white as leprosy.

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Bells, the poor man's only music.

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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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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

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A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

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Ancestral voices prophesying war.

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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

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