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Quotes from The Friend — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772–1834 England

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The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.

The Friend (1809)

A mother is a mother still;
The holiest thing alive.

The Friend (1809)

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star.

The Friend (1809)

It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.

The Friend (1809)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.