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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/SamuelTaylorColeridge.jpg/220px-SamuelTaylorColeridge.jpg)
An English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism.
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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
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So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.
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Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul.
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Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.
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As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.
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Language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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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 their best order.
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He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
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An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.