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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• Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Vaults

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.108

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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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Art, Reflection, People

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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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• Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, May, Fool

  Samuel Coleridge, “Epigram”

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Mind, Energy

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Flower, Love Is, Tree

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• A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Memories, Writing, Imagination

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.136

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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

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Childhood, Feelings

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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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Marriage, Men

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Support, Tolerance, Intolerance

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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

  Women, Men, Desire

  Table Talk 23 July 1827 (1835)

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• A great mind must be androgynous.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  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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• My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Vision, Seeing

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

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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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• What comes from the heart goes to the heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Attitude, Heart, Angel

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

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reading, Literacy, Force

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

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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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• Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Thinking, Facts, Conclusion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.12

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fear, Wickedness, Politics

  'Table Talk' (1835) 5 October 1830

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