Greatness and goodness are not means, bu... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | We Heart Quotes

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Genius Being People

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thought World

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Vices

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To meet, to know, to love - and then to part, Is the sad tale of many a heart.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Soul

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Devil

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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