Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

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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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A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

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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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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

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

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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

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The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

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But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

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To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

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