I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bible Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Angel Copy Share Image
“EPITAPH ON AN INFANT Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care: The opening Bud to Heaven… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blossom Copy Share Image
And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fashion Copy Share Image
“The mariners all ‘gan work the ropes, where they were wont to do: They raised their limbs like lifeless tools - We… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mariners Copy Share Image
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rocks Copy Share Image
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Army Copy Share Image
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Atheism Copy Share Image
Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bears Copy Share Image
So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Clever Copy Share Image
“O my brethren! I have told Most bitter truth, but without bitterness. Nor deem my zeal fractious or mistimed; For never can… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bitter truth Copy Share Image
If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which… — 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
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 Beast Copy Share Image
A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a… — 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
He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Abel Copy Share Image
When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Aloof Copy Share Image
As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Law Copy Share Image
To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulfillment 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 Cyclops Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books Copy Share Image
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Excess Copy Share Image
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, Are all but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love 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
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Childhood Copy Share Image
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Conclusion 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Human mind Copy Share Image
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 Acquaintance Copy Share Image
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blue Copy Share Image
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Character Copy Share Image
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 Ignorance Copy Share Image
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Melody Copy Share Image
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Color Copy Share Image
