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• ‘God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends that plague thee thus! Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.

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• He holds him with his glittering eye—The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.

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• It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. ‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?’

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• No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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• So for the mother’s sake the child was dear, And dearer was the mother for the child.

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• Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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• To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

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• Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

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• The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat, and illumines nothing but itself.

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• To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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• He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

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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.

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

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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.

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• Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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• The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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

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• What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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• Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (128)

Birth:	21st October, 1772
Death:	25th July, 1834
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Philosopher, Poet

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