Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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

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• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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• Good and bad men are less than they seem.

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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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• 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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• Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

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

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• All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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

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• A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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• A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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• I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

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

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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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• Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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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.

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

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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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