All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear. Samuel Taylor Coleridge tearsgriefdark A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge destructionmaymen A stately pleasure-dome decree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge domesclassicpleasure If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?. Samuel Taylor Coleridge purposementhinking Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. Samuel Taylor Coleridge inspirationalwaterfunny For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep. Samuel Taylor Coleridge blessednesssleep I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated. Samuel Taylor Coleridge electricitykindmay In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. Samuel Taylor Coleridge noveltygeniusphilosophy Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn. Samuel Taylor Coleridge summerjoy You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land. Samuel Taylor Coleridge passionlandhouse Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! Samuel Taylor Coleridge coatsliteraturemen When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will. Samuel Taylor Coleridge mistressthievesdog The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. Samuel Taylor Coleridge shouldersdwarvesgiants Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday. Samuel Taylor Coleridge cuttingrevengerunning An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad. Samuel Taylor Coleridge musicdifferentair I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert. Samuel Taylor Coleridge paradiseimaginationshould-have You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge doing-youclasscountry [Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation! Samuel Taylor Coleridge spacetakenscience Never pursue literature as a trade. Samuel Taylor Coleridge pursuetradeliterature The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible. Samuel Taylor Coleridge philosophicalcharactermen
