The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWithin today, tomorrow is already walking.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe 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 COLERIDGEOf no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE