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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.
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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.
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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
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No voice but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.
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Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.
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A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
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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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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
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