Quotes from 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

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

All nature seems at work.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling