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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Born: October 21, 1772

Died: July 25, 1834

Nationality: English

Occupation: Poet, critic, philosopher

Biography: 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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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

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

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source/Notes: Juvenile poems. Sibylline leaves (1834 edition)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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"

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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

Source/Notes: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001 edition), Princeton University Press - ISBN: 9780691004839

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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.”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source/Notes: 20 August 1833. - Table Talk (1821-1834)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source/Notes: Biographia Literaria (1817)

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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.”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source/Notes: The complete works: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions. Ed. by [William Greenougl Thayer] Shedd in 7 Vol (1854 edition)

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