All Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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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
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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