As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beast Copy Share Image
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Childhood 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 Conclusion 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 Cyclops Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books Copy Share Image
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Excess Copy Share Image
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, Are all but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love 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
Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Analogies Copy Share Image
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Happiness Copy Share Image
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light… — 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
I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Attention Copy Share Image
We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beautiful Copy Share Image
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Care Copy Share Image
God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Father Copy Share Image
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Excess Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Great poet 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 Beast Copy Share Image
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Life Copy Share Image
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Body Copy Share Image
“Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drank the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Appetite Copy Share Image
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beloved Copy Share Image
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dark Copy Share Image
“We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inspirational Copy Share Image
