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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 Taylor Coleridge

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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

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

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

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No one does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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