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Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,Its body brevity, and wit its soul. What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post. There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Sublimity is Hebrew by birth. Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree. A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Summer has set in with its usual severity. Summer has set in with its usual severity.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation. It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: That gracious thing, made up of tears and light. That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day! How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Contempt is egotism in ill- humor. Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness. When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: We have to administer the law whether we like it or no. We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical. False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: What comes from the heart goes to the heart What comes from the heart goes to the heart
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: When a man is unhappy he writes damned bad poetry, I find. When a man is unhappy he writes damned bad poetry, I find.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: I ago's soliloquythe motive-hunting of a motiveless malignityhow awful it is! I ago's soliloquy
the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity
how awful it is!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: I have heard of reasons manifoldWhy Love must needs be blind,But this the best of all I hold,-His eyes are in his mind. I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,-
His eyes are in his mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. 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 quotes: A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife. A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Bells, the poor man's only music. Bells, the poor man's only music.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Swans sing before they die - 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing. Swans sing before they die - 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can. The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: But oh! each visitationSuspends what nature gave me any my birth,My shaping spirit of Imagination. But oh! each visitation
Suspends what nature gave me any my birth,
My shaping spirit of Imagination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty. The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one. Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Alas; they had been friends in youthbut whispering tongues can poison truth Alas; they had been friends in youth
but whispering tongues can poison truth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil. This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor. The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be! O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: A great mind must be androgynous. A great mind must be androgynous.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space. The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself. The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol. An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea. Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The bride hath paced into the hall,Red as a rose is she. The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Rage is essentially vulgar. Rage is essentially vulgar.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual. Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest. 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 quotes: The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost. The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The selfmoment I could pray;And from my neck so freeThe Albatross fell off, and sankLike lead into the sea. The selfmoment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: My eyes make pictures when they are shut. My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable. Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?"Is worse to man than worse necessity. A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?"
Is worse to man than worse necessity.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better. The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth! What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: In nature there is nothing melancholy In nature there is nothing melancholy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. 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 quotes: The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep. For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. 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 quotes: Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Persecution is a very easy form of virtue. Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Then all the charm Is brokenall that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other. Then all the charm
Is broken
all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: 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 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 quotes: That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead. Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: A sight to dream of, not to tell! A sight to dream of, not to tell!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters. To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: Memory, bosom-spring of joy. Memory, bosom-spring of joy.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors. On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. 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 quotes: If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: He went like one that hath been stunn'd,And is of sense forlorn:A sadder and a wiser manHe rose the morrow morn. He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes: 'Tis a month before the month of May,And the spring comes slowly up this way. 'Tis a month before the month of May,
And the spring comes slowly up this way.

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