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Never pursue literature as a trade.
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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Ottery St Mary
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S. T. Coleridge
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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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A stately pleasure-dome decree.
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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
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Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.
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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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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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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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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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