Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man — 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
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law)… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do 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
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