Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes - page 9

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. View quote
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. View quote
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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. View quote
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. View quote
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. View quote
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The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. View quote
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Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. View quote
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The anxiety to be admired is a loveless passion ..., loud on the hustings, gay in the ball-room, mute and sullen at the family fireside. View quote
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Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. View quote
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Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel, how beautiful they are! View quote
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Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass; methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! View quote
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Shakespeare is the Spinosistic deity - an omnipresent creativeness. Milton is the deity of prescience; he stands ab extra, and drives a fiery chariot and four, making the horses feel the iron curb which holds them in. Shakspeare's poetry is characterless; that is, it does not reflect the individual Shakspeare; but John Milton himself is in every line of the Paradise Lost. Shakspeare's rhymed verses are excessively condensed, - epigrams with the point every where; but in his blank dramatic verse he is diffused, with a linked sweetness long drawn out. View quote
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What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then? View quote
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No one does anything from a single motive. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. View quote
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Oh sleep it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. View quote
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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. View quote
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. View quote
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