The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us! — 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
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then… — 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
