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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes


He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

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

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

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.