Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

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There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

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You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. 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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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

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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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That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

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