Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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

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The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

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

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We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

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Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

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The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

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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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About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

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Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.

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The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.

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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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