Coleridge

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(1200 votes)  No one does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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(854 votes)  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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(709 votes)  Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(704 votes)  Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(701 votes)  Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(668 votes)  Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(613 votes)  Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(408 votes)  Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(381 votes)  To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(370 votes)  My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(358 votes)  Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(352 votes)  Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(334 votes)  Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(332 votes)  The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(316 votes)  All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(313 votes)  How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(304 votes)  The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(290 votes)  What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(288 votes)  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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(288 votes)  In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(285 votes)  Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(285 votes)  Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(282 votes)  What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(281 votes)  Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(281 votes)  That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(280 votes)  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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(279 votes)  Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(277 votes)  Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(277 votes)  He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(273 votes)  Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(270 votes)  And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(270 votes)  You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(269 votes)  To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(269 votes)  How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(269 votes)  An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(269 votes)  Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(268 votes)  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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(267 votes)  The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(267 votes)  An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(266 votes)  No one does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(266 votes)  And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(265 votes)  The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(264 votes)  As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(264 votes)  The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(261 votes)  Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(253 votes)  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
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(252 votes)  I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(247 votes)  Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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