Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge Life went a-maying Samuel Taylor Coleridge youthyoung But oh! each visitation Samuel Taylor Coleridge birthimaginationspirit To be beloved is all I need, Samuel Taylor Coleridge belovedloveneeds Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever. Samuel Taylor Coleridge womenstrongheart Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower. Samuel Taylor Coleridge energyintellectualimagination I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals. Samuel Taylor Coleridge superioritysuperiorslove-is Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! Samuel Taylor Coleridge toystalentsports The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. Samuel Taylor Coleridge endsmeanworld A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge waveshapessea Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. Samuel Taylor Coleridge tearseyeheart Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too. Samuel Taylor Coleridge rhythmmelodystyle A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge civilizedoughtstates The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge premisessophistryconclusion The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge selfmenorder In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere. Samuel Taylor Coleridge atmospheregoes-ondark To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable! Samuel Taylor Coleridge sentencespunishmentfulfillment The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula. Samuel Taylor Coleridge tableslawstones Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth Samuel Taylor Coleridge issueslightclouds And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Samuel Taylor Coleridge solepairshoney Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, Samuel Taylor Coleridge reddawnsun
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