- Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- 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 »
- An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- 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 »
- Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Friendship is like a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- 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 »
- If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- 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 »
- No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Poetry the best words in the best order. 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 »
- Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- What comes from the heart goes to the heart. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
- Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge »
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