Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out. Samuel Taylor Coleridge mind heart love 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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge arches evil may God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Samuel Taylor Coleridge voice god fall How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies? Samuel Taylor Coleridge atheist god ideas Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one. Samuel Taylor Coleridge multitudes friends should 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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge water-lily freedom rain Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge lamps oil death Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise. Samuel Taylor Coleridge prudent courage opportunity How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God. Samuel Taylor Coleridge beautiful character men As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge angel character men Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition. Samuel Taylor Coleridge atheism taken philosophy I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. Samuel Taylor Coleridge spring two years The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination. Samuel Taylor Coleridge imagination names men Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge imaginative milton mind Bells, the poor man's only music. Samuel Taylor Coleridge bells poor men Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me. Samuel Taylor Coleridge moral strong blow Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets. Samuel Taylor Coleridge stolen pockets hands That gracious thing, made up of tears and light. Samuel Taylor Coleridge rainbow tears light A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. Samuel Taylor Coleridge women desire men All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge passion love life
