Quotes on history

“Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed The lighthouse top I see? Is this the hill? Is this the kirk? Is this mine one countree?”

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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“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Shakespeare…is of no age-nor, I may add, of any religion, or party, or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.”

William Hazlitt
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“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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