Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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