Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

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Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

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To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

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Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

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