Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom

The wise only possess ideas…the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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He saw a cottage with a double coach house,  A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin  Is pride that apes humility.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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