Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes - Famous Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Born: 1772-10-21
Died: 1834-07-25
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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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.
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An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war
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Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.
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Gibbon's style is detestable; but it is not the worst thing about him.
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He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
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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.
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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order.
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
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Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
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Poetry the best words in the best order.
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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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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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.
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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 worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
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There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
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Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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