Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

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We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

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The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

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O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

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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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Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

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

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If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

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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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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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