Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Arise Beautiful Constructive Harmony Imagination Inborn Judgement Object Perceive Rule Sight Sound
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Flower Friendship Like Love Shelter Tree
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Best Inspiration Moment Prepare Serve
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Finest Glass Keep Prodi=Uce Some Musical Tone Wet
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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Beautiful Flower Heaven Pluck Sleep Slept Strange Went
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Agent Al Human Imagination Live Perception Power Prime
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Blossom Emotion Fragrance Human Knowledge Language Passion Poetry Thought
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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After Age Day Drink Excess Feel Like Match Over Seem Sime Sore Stimulation Sustain
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Beast Deserve Forethought Man Metphronical Name Phrase Reflection Sacred
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Carry Childhood Feeling Genius Manhood Power
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Author Creator Excellence Excess Fault Generally
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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Aged Children Inhuman Often Through World
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Eye Make Picture Shut Stop
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Acem Body Depth Gaenor Mind Ocean Own Party Profession Religion Substance Work
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Blest Hour Luxury
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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Agent Human Imagination Living Perception Power Primary Prime
There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Artem Master One People Reflection Should
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Alcohol Carefully Egotism Heaven Hell Intense Mark Milton Regin Satan Selfishness Serve
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
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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Beast Either First Immortal Soul True Wisedt
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Direct Gratified Institution Land Multitude Spoil Tyranny
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Armonty Conquest Contain Eapon Future Human Language Mind Past Trophies
A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Follow Precede Sea Shape Single Thought Wave

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