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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
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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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors 2. Facility to acquirers and 3. Hope to all.
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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.
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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.
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Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.
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