“A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy;Mnor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,–1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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 be plain.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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 nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Swans sing before they die — t’were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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