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Come, come thou bleak December wind,
And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death
And take a Life that wearies me.
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The positions of science must be tried in the jeweller's scales, not like the mixed commodities of the market, on the weigh-bridge of common opinion and vulgar usage.
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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
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To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it could furnish him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, or ornaments, or playwiths, but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.
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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.
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Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?
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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
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Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.
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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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.
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God is everywhere! the God who framed
Mankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home.
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Sympathy and interest are to a lecturer like the sun and the showers to nature - absolutely necessary to the production of blossoms and fruit.
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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.
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Life went a-maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
When I was young!
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Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
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A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.
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The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.
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Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)
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Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.
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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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The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Born:
October 21, 1772
Died:
July 25, 1834
(aged 61)
Bio:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
Known for:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Limbo
Time, Real and Imaginary
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