Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELove is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
-
-
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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 -
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 COLERIDGE -
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
A great mind must be androgynous.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
We 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 COLERIDGE -
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE