Idle Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge