I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge substance dream men Good and bad men are each less so than they seem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge good-and-bad goodness men And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge devil pride humility To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. Samuel Taylor Coleridge genius men school Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. Samuel Taylor Coleridge intense style study The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge gothic infinity principles To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge track light men Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge vaults ignorant ignorance And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. Samuel Taylor Coleridge rocks silence white I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge prose-and-poetry prose-poetry clever The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge three government two Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. Samuel Taylor Coleridge literacy force reading Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. Samuel Taylor Coleridge rewards wish beautiful The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge genius literature people The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge foam white sea Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge whispering gossip poison How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge good-morning vices motivational Remorse weeps tears of blood. Samuel Taylor Coleridge tears-of-blood tears blood No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart. Samuel Taylor Coleridge voice silence heart Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; Samuel Taylor Coleridge famous-love flames heart
