Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mind, Snow, Advice

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

Mother's Day, Love, Mother

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom, Sense, Common

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, Friendship, Sympathy

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great, Tolerance, Support

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

Smile, Life, Happiness

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nature, Bad, Die

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

Trust, Nature, Him

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy, Virtue, Consistent

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Faith, Moment, Willing

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strength, Mind, Heart

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mother, Alive, Holiest

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship, Tree, Sheltering

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Him, Through, Soul

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death, May, Nation

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

Minds, Weak, Necessary

No one does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Woman, Feeling, Old

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Morning, After, Committed

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth, Friends, Youth

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Philosophy, Living

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

Marriage, Happy, Woman

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Woman, Desire, Rarely

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yourself, Ignorance, Understand

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor, Mind, Sense

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 21, 1772

Died: July 25, 1834

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