English - Poet | October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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No one does anything from a single motive.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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