Character Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

16 Character quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge's verses often wander through the labyrinth of the human soul. This collection of sixteen lines offers a glimpse of how his Romantic imagination wrestles with the formation of personal virtue.

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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…

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“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.”

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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,…

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Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of…

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on…

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic.…

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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become…

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I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian…

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To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances…

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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work…

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As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast…

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The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with…

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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,…

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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could,…

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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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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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths…

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine…

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

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