Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

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

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

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I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

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History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

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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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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

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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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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

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I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.

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A stately pleasure-dome decree.

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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

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