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A rogue is a roundabout fool. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
General principles ... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, 'Where is it?' -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What if you slept?
What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then? -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Iambics march from short to long;
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God is everywhere! the God who framed
Mankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The nightmare Life-in-Death was she. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A great mind must be androgynous. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Then all the charm
Is broken
all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sublimity is Hebrew by birth. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
- (1772-1834) -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Swans sing before they die - 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Remorse weeps tears of blood. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I ago's soliloquy
the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity
how awful it is! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A great poet must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in the silent desert, the eye of a North American Indian tracing the footsteps of an enemy upon the leaves that strew the forest, the touch of a blind man feeling the face of a darling child. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Come, come thou bleak December wind,
And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death
And take a Life that wearies me. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Memory, bosom-spring of joy. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The fair breeze blew,
The white foam flew,
And the forrow followed free.
We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alas; they had been friends in youth
but whispering tongues can poison truth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817) -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When a man is unhappy he writes damned bad poetry, I find. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
Thoughts so all unlike each other;
To mutter and mock a broken charm,
To dally with wrong that does no harm. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The river Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne;
But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is one man's gain is another's loss. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Cant is the parrot talk of a profession. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My eyes make pictures when they are shut. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To be loved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drank the milk of Paradise. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ere I was old? Ah woeful Ere,
Which tells me, Youth's no longer here!
O Youth! for years so many and sweet,
'Tis known that Thou and I were one,
I'll think it but a fond conceit
It cannot be that Thou art gone! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Party men always hate a slightly differing friend more than a downright enemy. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every thing has a life of its own, and that we are all one life. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is there in thee, Man, that can be known?
Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought,
A phantom dim of past and future wrought,
Vain sister of the worm ... -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry: the best words in the best order. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For mother's sake the child was dear,
and dearer was the mother for the child. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No sound is dissonant which tells of life. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Health is a great blessing
competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing
and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Summer has set in with its usual severity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Blest hour! It was a luxury
to be! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Willing Suspension of Disbelief -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Metaphysics,
the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Conscience is the pulse of reason -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart
the moral nature
was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship is a sheltering tree. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock
the priceless gems and gold
is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But oh! each visitation
Suspends what nature gave me any my birth,
My shaping spirit of Imagination. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life went a-maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
When I was young! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse that distinguishes in order to divide. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And to be wroth with one we love ... Doth work like madness in the brain. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Tis a month before the month of May,
And the spring comes slowly up this way. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings for my shame and feebleness. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
where they were wont to do:
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools -
We were a ghastly crew. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry . -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies? -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds!
And they too have a voice, you piles of snow,
And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into my soul. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never pursue literature as a trade. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rage is essentially vulgar. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one does anything from a single motive. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many ... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You do not believe, you only believe that you believe. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
infancy presents body and spirit in unity -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And life is thorny; and youth is vain -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In nature there is nothing melancholy -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer
And the church of St. Geryon
Are the two things alone
That deserve to be known
In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An undevout poet is an impossibility. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
EPITAPH ON AN INFANT Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care: The opening Bud to Heaven convey'd, And bade it blossom there. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And in today already walks tomorrow. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good and bad men are less than they seem. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We have to administer the law whether we like it or no. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way,
And wiser men than I went worse astray. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,-
His eyes are in his mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He prayeth best who loveth best. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?"
Is worse to man than worse necessity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sight to dream of, not to tell! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All powerful souls have kindred with each other -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bells, the poor man's only music. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is nothing insignificant-nothing. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I shot the ALBATROSS. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Gothic church is a petrified religion. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What comes from the heart goes to the heart -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all? -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss? -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Silence does not always mark wisdom. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Why look'st thou so?' - With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Contempt is egotism in ill- humor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Her skin was white as leprosy. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Within today, tomorrow is already walking. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The selfmoment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That gracious thing, made up of tears and light. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge