Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

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The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

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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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What is one man's gain is another's loss.

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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

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The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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Conscience is the pulse of reason

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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

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The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

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