Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

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

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Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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

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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

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The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

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

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We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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