Quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

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.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

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!

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.