Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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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.

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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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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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.

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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

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