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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Excess Will

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice Mind

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Vices

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

- 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

Desire Man

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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