| 105 Famous Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo”
Acquaintance Quotes |
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“Talk of the devil, and his horns appear”
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“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling”
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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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“Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe”
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“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
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“Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone.”
Gods Quotes Source: The Visits of the Gods, imitated from Schiller
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“A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I bless'd them unaware.”
Blessings Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. IV)
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“My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.”
Eyes Quotes Source: A Day Dream
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“Treading beneath their feet all visible things,
As steps that upwards to their Father's throne
Lead gradual.”
Growth Quotes Source: Religious Musings
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“In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column:
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.”
Poetry Quotes Source: The Ovidian Elegiac Metre
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“Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in
their best order.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Table Talk
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“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Friendship Quotes Source: Youth and Age
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“The Past lives o'er again,
In its effects, and to the guilty spirit
The ever-frowning Present is its image.”
Conscience Quotes Source: Remorse (act I, sc. 2)
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“The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.”
Apparitions Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. III)
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“And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks,
silent as the shadows.”
Silence Quotes Source: The Wanderings of Cain
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“Silence is a friend who will never betray.”
Silence Quotes Source: The Wanderings of Cain
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“Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Biographia Literaria (ch. XV), borrowed from a Greek monk who had applied it to a Patriarch of Const
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“. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.”
Future Quotes Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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“I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.”
Future Quotes Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.”
Future Quotes Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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“Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea.”
Solitude Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. IV)
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“So lonely 'twas that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.”
Solitude Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VII)
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“Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.”
Beauty Quotes Source: Christabel (pt. I, st. 24)
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“Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course?”
Stars Quotes Source: Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni
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