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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Inspirational, Funny, Life

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Liars, Atheism, Church

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
Business, Communication, Past
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1840). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume”, p.313

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Art, Reflection, People

Remorse weeps tears of blood.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Blood, Tears, Tears Of Blood

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imagination, Perception, Agents
Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Flower, Love Is, Tree

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1838). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild”, p.186

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
Life, Happiness, Smile
The Friend (1828)

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Passion, Men, Profound
"Biographia Literaria". Book by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ch. XV, 1817.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Childhood, Feelings

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
Inspirational, Marriage, Men

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Support, Tolerance, Intolerance

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Eye, Vision, Seeing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.134

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reading, Literacy, Force
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Literary Remains”, p.316

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Attitude, Heart, Angel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven lectures on Shakespeare and Milton”, p.45

A great mind must be androgynous.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mind, Great Minds, Androgynous
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.96

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Unity, Definitions, Definition Of Beauty
"On the Principles of Genial Criticism". Essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1814.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thinking, Facts, Conclusion
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.12

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wise, Feelings, Opponents

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sea, Shapes, Wave
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.127

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Race, People
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.481

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Thinking, Purpose
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.45

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love, Beautiful, Dream
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What If You Slept ...”

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fear, Wickedness, Politics
'Table Talk' (1835) 5 October 1830

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