A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
He 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 Coleridge Quote
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
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 Quote
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are, 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
