As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Acting Copy Share Image
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amendments Copy Share Image
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Human language 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 Conscience Copy Share Image
Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blessed Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christianity Copy Share Image
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Absolutes Copy Share Image
“They passed the hall, that echoes still, Pass as lightly as you will. The brands were flat, the brands were dying, Amid… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ashes 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,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blessing Copy Share Image
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Antithesis 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
“But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Better world Copy Share Image
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“On Pilgrim's Progress: “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Calvinism Copy Share Image
The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jews Copy Share Image
Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Action Copy Share Image
As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel 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
Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christ Copy Share Image
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fool Copy Share Image
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Anguish Copy Share Image
“They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dreams Copy Share Image
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Abstract Copy Share Image
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Desire Copy Share Image
The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Astronomy Copy Share Image
I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blind Copy Share Image
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dark Copy Share Image
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Business Copy Share Image
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ark Copy Share Image
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Action Copy Share Image
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to… — 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 Adulthood Copy Share Image
The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
