It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMan is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
-
-
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE






