Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

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

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Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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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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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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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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I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

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All nature seems at work.

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