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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
Written by 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?
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Written by Samuel Taylor 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.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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