Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

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A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

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A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

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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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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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

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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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This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

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What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

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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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Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

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

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The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

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Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

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