Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Would Be, World

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2008). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works”, Oxford Paperbacks

• Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Children, Philosophy

• He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Eye, Years

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 1

• To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Character, Years

• For mother's sake the child was dear,
  and dearer was the mother for the child.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mother, Children, Sake

  'Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me' (1797)

• Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Girl, Morning, Children

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.119

• Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Pain, Men

• The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Daughter, Children, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1054, Delphi Classics

• How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dance, Children, Dancing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.158

• It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Years, Mind

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