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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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GOOD AND BAD MEN ARE EACH LESS SO THAN THEY SEEM.
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HOW LIKE HERRINGS AND ONIONS OUR VICES ARE IN THE MORNING AFTER WE HAVE COMMITTED THEM.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

Table Talk (1835) 18 December 1831

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Table Talk (1835) 5 October 1830

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Prose = words in their best order;—poetry = the best words in the best order.

Table Talk (1835) 12 July 1827

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To see him act, is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

of Edmund Kean

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a seminal figure in English literature, a poet, literary critic, and philosopher who played a crucial role in the development of Romanticism. Born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, in 1772, his poetic work, notably "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", is celebrated for its vivid imagination and ethereal lyricism. Coleridge was also an influential literary critic, whose ideas on imagination and the relationship between the poet and nature shaped later literary theory. He collaborated with William Wordsworth on the publication "Lyrical Ballads", a landmark of Romanticism. His philosophical and theological reflections, though sometimes obscure, reveal a profound and inquisitive mind. His life was marked by health problems and opium addiction, which affected his productivity and stability. Samuel Taylor Coleridge passed away in 1834, leaving a lasting legacy in poetry and criticism.