Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA sight to dream of, not to tell!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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