Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

• And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

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• Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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• Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two – The friend I’ve wept and the maid I woo

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• Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man.

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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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• 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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• Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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• The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man’s blood with cold.

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

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• Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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• The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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• The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.

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• I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language religion government blood identity in these makes men of one country.

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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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