The spring comes slowly up this way.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Seasons
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Sleep
Truths of all others the most awful and interesting are too often considered as so true that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bedridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Truth
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Truth
Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, death came with friendly care; the opening but to heaven conveyed, and bade it blossom there.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one does anything from a single motive.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Motivation, Motivational
For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Eating
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Gossip
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
Topics: Government
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 opinion of himself.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Mind
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Silence
There is a religion in all deep love, but the love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Mothers Day
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Acting, Actors
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Bible, Style
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Sex
Swans sing before they die—t’were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Singing
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Idleness, One liners
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Reform, Correction, Change
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathises with their just feelings.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Argument
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
Topics: Wonder, Love, Abundance
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
Topics: Nationalism, Nation, Nations, Nationality
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Marriage
There is one art of which every man should be a master—the art of reflection.—If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Reflection
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness, while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius—the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Genius
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Water
How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Dance, Dancing
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Knowledge
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topics: Motivational, Motivation
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