All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 Copy Share Image
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old… — 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
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — 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
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
