Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

• 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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody’s reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• A 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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• In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• 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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• Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

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• Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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