Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
No man does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Not 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 ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge