Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 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
