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No voice but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.
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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Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)
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A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
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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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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.
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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.
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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 spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
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Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.
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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
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Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.
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If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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