Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet and critic

Lived from: 1772 - 1834

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 21 october 1772 Died: 25 july 1834

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  • Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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  • Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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  • He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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  • He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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  • How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
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  • Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
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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.
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  • I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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  • I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
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  • In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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.
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  • Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.
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  • My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
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  • No man was ever yet a great poet, without begin at the same time a profound philosopher.
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  • Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
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  • Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
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  • Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
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  • Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
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  • Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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  • People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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