Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Business, Communication, Past

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1840). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume”, p.313

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• No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Passion, Men, Profound

  "Biographia Literaria". Book by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ch. XV, 1817.

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• Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

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  Happiness, Success, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3497, Delphi Classics

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• There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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  Art, Reflection, People

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• Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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  Imagination, Perception, Agents

  Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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• Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

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  Flower, Love Is, Tree

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1838). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild”, p.186

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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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  Inspirational, Marriage, Men

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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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  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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• Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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  Men, Childhood, Feelings

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• Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

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  Prayer, Mind, Energy

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• Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Atheist, Heart, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi (2002). “Opus Maximum”, p.236, Princeton University Press

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• The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

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  Mean, World, Ends

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.68

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• Remorse weeps tears of blood.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Blood, Tears, Tears Of Blood

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• Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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  Reading, Literacy, Force

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Literary Remains”, p.316

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• My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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  Eye, Vision, Seeing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.134

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

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  Support, Tolerance, Intolerance

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• A great mind must be androgynous.

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  Mind, Great Minds, Androgynous

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.96

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• What comes from the heart goes to the heart

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  Attitude, Heart, Angel

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven lectures on Shakespeare and Milton”, p.45

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• To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

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  Believe, Growth, Different

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.143

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• A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?"
  Is worse to man than worse necessity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Doubt, Bitter

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge. With a Life of the Author”, p.133

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• In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

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  Fear, Wickedness, Politics

  'Table Talk' (1835) 5 October 1830

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• If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.45

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• The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Be Good

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.285

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