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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
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Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.
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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative a principle carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.
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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors 2. Facility to acquirers and 3. Hope to all.
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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
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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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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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