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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (82)

Birth:	21st October, 1772
Death:	25th July, 1834
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Philosopher, Poet

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• To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumineonly the track it has passed.

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• No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

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• Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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• I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.

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• Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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• 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.

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• The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

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

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• All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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• I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

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• 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.

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• A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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

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• A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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• General principles… are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

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• If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake – Aye, what then?

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• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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• I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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• Good and bad men are less than they seem.

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