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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes (385 quotes)
 | “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 Source/Notes: The Friend: A series of essays, in three volumes, to aid in the formation of fixed principles in politics, morals, and religion, with literary amusements interspersed, By S. T. Coleridge, Volume 2 (1818), p. 139 |
| Source/Notes: Juvenile poems. Sibylline leaves (1834 edition) |
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| “All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.” ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source/Notes: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 (1836), p. 339, "Omniana" |
| “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 Source/Notes: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001 edition), Princeton University Press - ISBN: 9780691004839 |
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| Source/Notes: 20 August 1833. - Table Talk (1821-1834) |
| “Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.” ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source/Notes: AIDS to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (2005 edition), Cosimo, Inc. - ISBN: 9781596053526 |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Born: October 21, 1772
Died: July 25, 1834 (aged 61)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Poet, critic, philosopher
Bio: Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria.
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