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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!
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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
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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.
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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Friends should be weighed, not told who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
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God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
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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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When thieves come, I bark when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
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What is one man's gain is another's loss.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.
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