Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

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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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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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

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The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

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All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

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

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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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

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Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

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Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

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