The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was… — 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
The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to… — 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
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. — 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
We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them… — 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
