Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

• As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale – my dreams become the substances of my life.

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• A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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• General principles… are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

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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 that flower in his hand when he awake – Aye, what then?

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• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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• I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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• Good and bad men are less than they seem.

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• He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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• Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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• How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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• Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

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• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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• Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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• Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions form our true honor.

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• Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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• Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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• No one does anything from a single motive.

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• Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

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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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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (128)

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

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