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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inspirational Quotes (288)

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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.
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And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.
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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.
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The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
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You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.
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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
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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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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.
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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.
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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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