Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

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Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.

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A sight to dream of, not to tell!

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

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Bells, the poor man's only music.

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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

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Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

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False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

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Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

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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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Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

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

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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