O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. — 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
Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the… — 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
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
