He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child. — 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
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to… — 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
For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances… — 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 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
God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year;… — 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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