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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet, critic, and philosopher

Nationality: British

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Type: Poet

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Birth: 1772-1834

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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure sti

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.

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He that does good to another does good also to himself.

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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?

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Do everything as in the eye of another.

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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

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Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

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He who is brave is free.

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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

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For greed all nature is too little.

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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

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If you would judge, understand.

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If you judge, investigate.

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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbour, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

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Life is warfare.

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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If you wish to be loved; Love!

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

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What once were vices are manners now.

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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

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Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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A great fortune is a great slavery.

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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

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So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complainin

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

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You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

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When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

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What is true belongs to me!

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All cruelty springs from weakness.

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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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The sun also shines on the wicked.

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

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