Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

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All powerful souls have kindred with each other

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

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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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Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?

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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

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When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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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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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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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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The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

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Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

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A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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