Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. — 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
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — 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
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. — 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
A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts;… — 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
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
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst… — 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 whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers… — 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
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
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
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match… — 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
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
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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
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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