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Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes

English Poet October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834

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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
And what if all of animated nature. Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps. Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of All? Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small."
He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the..."
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 quote: "Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in..."
Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "Poetry: the best words in the best order."
Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature. Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, Making it a companionable form, Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit. By its own moods interprets, every where. Echo or mirror seeking of itself, And makes a toy of Thought. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Readers may be divided into four classes:1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time.3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read.4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotus, and wake once in a million years for a few minutes? just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning..."
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And..."
Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on. My soul in agony Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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