That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
-
-
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 -
A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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 -
There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE