{"id":4793,"date":"2016-05-13T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:06:48","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge_57_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=4793","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (57 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher<\/b><\/div>\n
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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; — nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Religion<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Advice<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Gossip<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Sympathy<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Churches<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Death and Dying<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Pride<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Friends and Friendship<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Ability<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Genius<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Reform<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Aphorisms and Epigrams<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Atheism<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Friends and Friendship<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Good and bad men are less than they seem.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Goodness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Greatness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Medicine<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Christians and Christianity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Celibacy<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!<\/div>\n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Dance and Dancing<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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