Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself."	Ability, Excellence
"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."	Humor
"He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all."	Excellence, Love
"Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least."	Evil, Good, Poetry
"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Age, Hope, Memory
"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."	Excellence, Knowledge, Men
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never."	Friends, Love
"Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick."	Death
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel."	Ability, Evil, Good
"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."	Art, Happiness, Joy
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."	Age, History, Men
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."	Ability, Genius, Imagination
"Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."	Art, Excellence, Knowledge
"Poetry: the best words in the best order."	Poetry
"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."	Age, History, Men
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."	Sin
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame."	Darkness, Light, Love
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."	Friends, Love, Sin
"Common sense in an uncommon degree [and] is what the world calls wisdom."	Knowledge, Wisdom
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