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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Thinking, Feelings
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.3699, e-artnow

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People, Degrees, Genius

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love, Inspirational, Heart
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse”, p.200

No man does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Inspirational, Motivation, Doe
"Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions; and Two Lay Sermons".

And in today already walks tomorrow.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Teacher, Appreciation, Future
Wallenstein (1800).

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life, Motivational, Success

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dance, Children, Dancing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.158

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Evil, Be Good
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.285

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Retirement, Humor, Mind
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mind, Atheism, Reform
Biographia Literaria ch. 1 (1817)

Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Thinking, Animal
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “Lectures Upon Shakspeare”, p.145, Classic Books Company

In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gratitude, Night, Long

Rage is essentially vulgar.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rage, Vulgar

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Atheist, Heart, Men
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi (2002). “Opus Maximum”, p.236, Princeton University Press

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Doubt, Bitter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge. With a Life of the Author”, p.133

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marriage, Couple, Unhappy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.32

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mind, Firsts, Weak
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.24

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mean, Greatness, Goodness
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.348

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book, Reading, Glasses
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632”, p.13

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death, Nature, Swans
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya”, p.148

To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love, Needs, Beloved
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.112

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God, Atheist, Ideas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.307

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happiness, Smile, Heartfelt
The Friend (1828)

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Believe, Growth, Different
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.143

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
Faith, Philosophy, Good Christian
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion”, p.193

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