Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.

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The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

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As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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

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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

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The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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

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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

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You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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