There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA sight to dream of, not to tell!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot 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 COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe 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 COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAn undevout poet is an impossibility.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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 COLERIDGE