Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

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O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

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There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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

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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

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An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

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Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

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

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A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

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Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

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Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it's own, & that we are all one Life.

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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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