Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Boast Copy Share Image
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Drudgery Copy Share Image
“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Agony Copy Share Image
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flower Copy Share Image
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. — 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 Atheism Copy Share Image
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Authors 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 Curiosity Copy Share Image
And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Brain Copy Share Image
“Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ancient Copy Share Image
Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bears Copy Share Image
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Atheism Copy Share Image
I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bible Copy Share Image
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Birth Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beauty Copy Share Image
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Copy Share Image
O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Being me Copy Share Image
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bible Copy Share Image
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Acquaintance Copy Share Image
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blue Copy Share Image
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Character Copy Share Image
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Melody Copy Share Image
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ignorance Copy Share Image
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Color Copy Share Image
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Human mind Copy Share Image
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bees Copy Share Image
To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alcohol Copy Share Image
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christianity Copy Share Image
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Atheism Copy Share Image
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books Copy Share Image
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Conclusion Copy Share Image