Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

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Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

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

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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.

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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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

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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

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

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

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I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

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The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

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

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Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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