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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.
— Hartley Coleridge
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God is everywhere! the God who framedMankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.
— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I ago's soliloquythe motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity
how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Her skin was white as leprosy.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,The glorious Sun uprist — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bells, the poor man's only music.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge saw the active mind as one way in which human beings were made in God's image:
— Mark J.P. Wolf
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
![Coleridge's Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge: It [is] very unfair to influence a child's](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/coleridges-quotes-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge-775770.jpg "Coleridge's Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge: It [is] very unfair to influence a child's")
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.
— Hartley Coleridge
What is one man's gain is another's loss.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.
— Sara Coleridge
Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.
— Sara Coleridge
For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
— Sara Coleridge
No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The frost performs its secret ministry,Unhelped by any wind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
About, about, in reel and routThe death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
![Coleridge's Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge: I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/coleridges-quotes-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge-1910014.jpg "Coleridge's Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge: I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew")
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
— Hartley Coleridge
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man is more than half of nature's treasure.
— Hartley Coleridge
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
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way,And wiser men than I went worse astray. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Why look'st thou so?' - With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In nature there is nothing melancholy
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Metaphysics,the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
![Coleridge's Quotes By Eliot Paulina Sumner: I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/coleridges-quotes-by-eliot-paulina-sumner-327895.jpg "Coleridge's Quotes By Eliot Paulina Sumner: I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth")
I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess ...
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
All powerful souls have kindred with each other
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.
— Sara Coleridge