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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,Its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God is everywhere! the God who framedMankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When a man is unhappy he writes damned bad poetry, I find.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Her skin was white as leprosy.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The frost performs its secret ministry,Unhelped by any wind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse that distinguishes in order to divide.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I shot the ALBATROSS.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one does anything from a single motive.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And in today already walks tomorrow.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In nature there is nothing melancholy
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is one man's gain is another's loss.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way,And wiser men than I went worse astray. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Why look'st thou so?' - With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Metaphysics,the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All powerful souls have kindred with each other
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge