The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge Life went a-maying Samuel Taylor Coleridge youth young But oh! each visitation Samuel Taylor Coleridge birth imagination spirit To be beloved is all I need, Samuel Taylor Coleridge beloved love needs 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 women strong heart 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 energy intellectual imagination I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals. Samuel Taylor Coleridge superiority superiors love-is Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! Samuel Taylor Coleridge toys talent sports The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ends mean world 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 wave shapes sea Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. Samuel Taylor Coleridge tears eye heart 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 rhythm melody style A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge civilized ought states 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 premises sophistry conclusion 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 self men order 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 atmosphere goes-on dark To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable! Samuel Taylor Coleridge sentences punishment fulfillment 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 tables law stones Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth Samuel Taylor Coleridge issues light clouds And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Samuel Taylor Coleridge sole pairs honey Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, Samuel Taylor Coleridge red dawn sun
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