That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Atheism Copy Share Image
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comedy Copy Share Image
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Despair Copy Share Image
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Autumn Copy Share Image
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Book Copy Share Image
The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Moon Copy Share Image
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Esteem Copy Share Image
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heart Copy Share Image
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Death Copy Share Image
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Atheist 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 Absurd Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beautiful Copy Share Image
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes.… — 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 Birth 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… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim, and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars. But… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge God Copy Share Image
Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Character Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Accidents Copy Share Image
Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beast Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image