Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

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Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

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The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.

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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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

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For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

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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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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

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