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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Advice category:
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Aging category:
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Architecture category:
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Belief category:
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Communication category:
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Critics category:
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)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Dreams category:
A sight to dream of, not to tell! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Enthusiasm category:
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Experience category:
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Form category:
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Friendship category:
Love is flower-like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Future category:
And in today already walks tomorrow. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Gender category:
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)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Genius category:
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Goodness category:
Good and bad men are less than they seem. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Greatness category:
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Happiness category:
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)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Hope category:
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Humour category:
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humour. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Imagination category:
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)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Knowledge category:
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)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Language category:
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)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Life category:
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Love category:
All thoughts, all passions, all delights / Whatever stirs this mortal frame / All are but ministers of Love / And feed His sacred flame. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Memory category:
The Fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Memory category:
Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Motivation category:
No one does anything from a single motive. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Nature category:
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Passion category:
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Perception category:
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Philosophy category:
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Plagiarism category:
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Poetry category:
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)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Prayer category:
He prayeth well, who loveth well / Both man and bird and beast. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Religion category:
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Renewal category:
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Rewards category:
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. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Rules category:
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Satisfaction category:
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Silence category:
No voice; but oh! the silence sank / Like music on my heart. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Sleep category:
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, / Beloved from pole to pole! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Solitude category:
Alone, alone, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Symphony category:
Could I revive within me / Her symphony and song, / To such a deep delight 'twould win me, / That with music loud and long, / I would build that dome in air, / That sunny dome! those caves of ice! / And all who heard should see them there, / And all should cry, Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Talent category:
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Teaching category:
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Thinking category:
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Truth category:
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Understanding category:
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Wisdom category:
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Words category:
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From the Writing category:
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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