All sympathy not consistent with acknowl... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | We Heart Quotes

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Motive

No one does anything from a single motive.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mother Love

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Order Words

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom World

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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