Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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• There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Art, Reflection, People

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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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Business, Communication, Past

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1840). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume”, p.313

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• Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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  Imagination, Perception, Agents

  Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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• Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reading, Literacy, Force

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Literary Remains”, p.316

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• 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.

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  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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• 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

  Inspirational, Marriage, Men

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• Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

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  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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  Mind, Atheism, Reform

  Biographia Literaria ch. 1 (1817)

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• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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  Support, Tolerance, Intolerance

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

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  Flower, Love Is, Tree

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• Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1838). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild”, p.186

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• My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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  Eye, Vision, Seeing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.134

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• Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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  Men, Childhood, Feelings

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• A great mind must be androgynous.

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  Mind, Great Minds, Androgynous

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.96

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• What comes from the heart goes to the heart

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  Attitude, Heart, Angel

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven lectures on Shakespeare and Milton”, p.45

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• Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

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  Love, Inspirational, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse”, p.200

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• Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

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  Mind, Firsts, Weak

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.24

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• And in today already walks tomorrow.

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  Teacher, Appreciation, Future

  Wallenstein (1800).

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

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  People, Degrees, Genius

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• The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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  Wise, Feelings, Opponents

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• What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

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  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What If You Slept ...”

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• To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

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  Believe, Growth, Different

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.143

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• The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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  Family, Mothers Day, Father

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.23

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

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  Hope, Medicine, Physicians

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3340, Delphi Classics

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