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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.
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The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
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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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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
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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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