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Flowers are lovely love is flower-like Friendship is a sheltering tree Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!
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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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.
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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
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Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!
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For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.
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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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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
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