Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
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 Copy Share
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
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… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
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… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to possessors; 2.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
“We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
