A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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 COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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 COLERIDGEThere is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBlest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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 COLERIDGEWithin today, tomorrow is already walking.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA great mind must be androgynous.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE