The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep,… — 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 Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?)… — 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
If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant. — 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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