Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist."
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"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole Its body brevity and wit its soul."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"No man does anything from a single motive."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"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 their best order."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Fear gives sudden instincts of skill."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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