Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes Born: 10/21/1772 Died: 07/25/1834 Country: united_kingdom

• How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly. (Samuel Coleridge) [morals/men/countries/marriage]
• 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 Coleridge) [people/poets/thing]
• He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. (Samuel Coleridge) [truth/willpower/church/start]
• Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means. (Samuel Coleridge) [look/countries/religion/willpower]
• An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. (Samuel Coleridge) [taste/men/point/sky]
• As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. (Samuel Coleridge) [genius/genius/power]
• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. (Samuel Coleridge) [greatness]
• The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. (Samuel Coleridge) [marriage]
• People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. (Samuel Coleridge) [people/people/genius]
• Good and bad men are less than they seem. (Samuel Coleridge) [bad/men]
• The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all. (Samuel Coleridge) [government/nation/security]
• Friendship is a sheltering tree. (Samuel Coleridge)
• And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. (Samuel Coleridge) [love/love]
• The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. (Samuel Coleridge) [/mankind]
• Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. (Samuel Coleridge) [love]
• He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. (Samuel Coleridge) [ingenious]
• 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 Coleridge) [language/human/mind/past]
• What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. (Samuel Coleridge)
• In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. (Samuel Coleridge) [politics/fear]
• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. (Samuel Coleridge) [sin/pride/humility]
• Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. (Samuel Coleridge) [child]
• I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country. (Samuel Coleridge) [language/religion/government/blood]
• 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 Coleridge) [wish/poets/remember/]
• That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. (Samuel Coleridge) [moment/faith]
• No one does anything from a single motive. (Samuel Coleridge)
• All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. (Samuel Coleridge) [virtue/selfishness]
• You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land. (Samuel Coleridge) [pleasure/tyranny/willpower/land]
• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. (Samuel Coleridge) [support/tolerance]
• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. (Samuel Coleridge) [being]
• Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. (Samuel Coleridge) [thing/pole/pole]
• Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man. (Samuel Coleridge) [duties/look/growth/willpower]

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