“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heart Copy Share Image
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Defence Copy Share Image
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Duty Copy Share Image
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Research Copy Share Image
“They stood aloof the scars remaining. Like cliffs which had been rent asunder.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Scars Copy Share Image
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blind Copy Share Image
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Great minds Copy Share Image
“ All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inspirational Copy Share Image
Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beauty Copy Share Image
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bible Copy Share Image
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry Copy Share Image
“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 Forethought Copy Share Image
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Character Copy Share Image
A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Attachment Copy Share Image
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Tutti gli uomini nascono aristotelici o platonici, cioè razionali o irrazionali: le opinioni e le interpretazioni difficilmente interesseranno i primi, i fatti… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amor Copy Share Image
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel Copy Share Image
Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intolerance Copy Share Image
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Animal Copy Share Image
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Painting Copy Share Image
“Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heart Copy Share Image
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flower Copy Share Image
The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bride Copy Share Image
The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beauty Copy Share Image
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Animal Copy Share Image
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Children Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Illness Copy Share Image
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Agony Copy Share Image