Should Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

15 Should quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge’s 15 verses on what we ought to pursue weave Romantic imagination with a moral thread, inviting readers to consider duty through a lyrical lens.

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There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to…

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Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

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Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are…

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The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show…

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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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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not…

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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…

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And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a…

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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them…

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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very…

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Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow,…

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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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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration…

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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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