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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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S. T. Coleridge
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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.
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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
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Trochee trips from long to short From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.
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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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Never pursue literature as a trade.
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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.
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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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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.
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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!
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Rage is essentially vulgar.
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