If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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