My eyes make pictures when they are shut. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former. Samuel Taylor Coleridge realizing taste ideas Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge energy prayer mind Contempt is egotism in ill- humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge egotism contempt ill Conscience is the pulse of reason Samuel Taylor Coleridge pulse conscience reason To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters. Samuel Taylor Coleridge church doubt feelings It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading. Samuel Taylor Coleridge effort curiosity reading Persecution is a very easy form of virtue. Samuel Taylor Coleridge virtue form easy We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be. Samuel Taylor Coleridge law hands thinking I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority. Samuel Taylor Coleridge authority law book Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge principles law may I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge criminals judging law What is one man's gain is another's loss. Samuel Taylor Coleridge gains loss men As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law. Samuel Taylor Coleridge law long Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character. Samuel Taylor Coleridge alms college character For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only. Samuel Taylor Coleridge angel compassion heart What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge cat two believe Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer Samuel Taylor Coleridge church soul two God grant me grace my prayers to say: Samuel Taylor Coleridge brother prayer mother The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. Samuel Taylor Coleridge daughter men children 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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge neglect genius circumstances
