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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
«Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
carried, excess, reform, reforming
«Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bedside, deathly, plaything, playthings, quaint
«Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Humanity,
Work
| Keywords:
working man
«General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
root, sap, sapped, sapping, saps
«There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.»
«To read Dryden, Pope, etc., you need only count syllables; but to read Donne you must measure time, and discover the time of each word by the sense of passion.»
«Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, claiming, corresponding, duties, History of the, inherent, occasion, parliamentary, privileges, records, Rights and privileges, Rights of Man, sophism, stated, The Rights of Man