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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inspirational Quotes (288)

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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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That agony returns And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.
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Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony
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I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.
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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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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Never pursue literature as a trade.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above And life is thorny, and youth is vain And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.
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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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