Men Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bells, the poor man's only music.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

— 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

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

— 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…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

— 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;…

— 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…

— 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…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom…

— 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…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,…

— 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,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness.

— 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

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

— 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