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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, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

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  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.285

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• I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Believe, Self, Discipline

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• Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

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  Men, People, Annoyed

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.481, Classic Books Company

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• He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Brother, Mind, Devil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.88

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• Never pursue literature as a trade.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Literature, Trade, Pursue

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1847). “Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.231

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• Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Skills, Giving, Instinct

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Bells, the poor man's only music.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Bells, Poor

  1798 'Frost at Midnight'.

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• Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Kindness, Absent

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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 in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

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  Flower, Color, Shepherds

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• That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Cutting, Hands, Sublime

  'Table Talk' (1835) 20 January 1834

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• Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

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  Imagination, Intellectual, Energy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.481

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• The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

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  Prayer, Men, Mind

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• Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Men, Blood

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 190 (1798)

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• I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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  Book, Law, Authority

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• A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Men, Cyclops

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.286

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• No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sound

  1797 'This Lime- Tree Bower my Prison'.

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• The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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  Sea, White, Foam

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• O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

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  Heart, Sunset, Clouds

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.298

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• There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

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  Fall, Ignorance, Government

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.40

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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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  Hands, Shapes, Mechanic

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1989). “Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare”

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• A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.

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  Grief, Dark, Tears

  Samuel Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode”

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• The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

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  Philosophy, Ignorance, Light

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.214

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• That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Agony, Return

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.203, Pearson Education

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• Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

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  Gentleman, World, Ifs

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• Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

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  Ideas, Taste, Realizing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1995). “The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments”

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