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• Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Atheism, Reform

  Biographia Literaria ch. 1 (1817)

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• Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Names, Tranquility, Fame

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1857). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.280

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• Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Nature, Swans

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya”, p.148

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• Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Marriage, Couple, Unhappy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.32

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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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hard Work, Men, Light

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• Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632”, p.13

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• All powerful souls have kindred with each other

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sympathy, Powerful, Soul

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.544

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• Silence does not always mark wisdom.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Silence

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.44

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• Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Genius, Kind, Unusual

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.446

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• Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Firsts, Weak

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.24

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• The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Feelings, Opponents

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• He prayeth best who loveth best.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Dear God, Praying

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 615 (1798)

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• The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Unity, Definitions, Definition Of Beauty

  "On the Principles of Genial Criticism". Essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1814.

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• 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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• Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Painting

  "On the Constitution of the Church and State".

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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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Would Be, World

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

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Self, Swallowing, Enthusiasm

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1839). “On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each”, p.223

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• The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Firsts, Misery, Sincerity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.339

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• No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Time, Men, Profound

  Biographia Literaria ch. 15 (1817)

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• Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Today, Tomorrow, Walking

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• An undevout poet is an impossibility.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, Poet, Impossibility

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1908). “Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets”

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• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mean, Greatness, Goodness

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.348

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

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  Family, Mothers Day, Father

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.23

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• When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mistake, Men, Madness

  "On the Constitution of the Church and State".

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• 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

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