He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Related He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church bett... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or churc... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It's better to hate someone in the beginning rather than end up hating someone after loving. PUSHPA RANA Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. ABRAHAM LINCOLN If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. ANON. If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. ANONYMOUS If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. SOURCE UNKNOWN My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So... JACK LAYTON My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So... JACK LAYTON Loving someone is way easier than un-loving them…. jh JIMBO HENDERSON A person who is truly loving the Mother Nature has a caring behavior towards all living creatures, s... ANUJ SOMANY A person who is truly loving the Mother Nature has a caring behavior towards all living creatures, s... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I believe in doing charity loving everyone caring about the World and all that crap. But a flash of ... RAYAN BLACK I believe in doing charity loving everyone caring about the World and all that crap. But a flash of ... RAYAN BLACK I believe in doing charity loving everyone caring about the World and all that crap. But a flash of ... ALBERT J VIERLING They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscape... INA GARTEN We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders ... DANI ANDERSON Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. JAMES E. FAUST Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. THE TALMUD Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. THOMAS FULLER The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't. JEAN HANFF KORELITZ There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved THOMAS FULLER Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. JACQUELINE SCHIFF I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him... LAUREN OLIVER A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. JEAN DE LA BRUYERE He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you. CHARLES STANLEY 321.—We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is better to be divided by truth than united in error. BRUCE BICKEL We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD i loved him, every inch of his being, but i realised one day; if loving him meant losing me, than lo... NIKKI ROWE It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes em... SHEILA HANCOCK Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. AESOP Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. AESOP Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. JOSEPH JOUBERT Man is a hating rather than a loving animal. REBECCA WEST If loving and communing with God isn’t your primary purpose in prayer, you’re missing out on wha... ANDREW WOMMACK You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. MIGUEL RUIZ It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that... ADRIAN ROGERS It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood DANISH PROVERB Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. KHALED HOSSEINI It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies. DAVID ALLAN It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood DANISH PROVERB Dirk wasn't himself in letting Bruce Bowen kind of get under his skin a little bit. He's better than... JERRY STACKHOUSE But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. KHALED HOSSEINI Less in haste better than more and most in courage better than all DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK A student who is becoming better than his master is a bright student; but a student who is becoming ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. CHARLES DE GAULLE Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. SCOTTISH PROVERB By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the s... EILEEN KENNEDY-MOORE Saying of the Prophet Food Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour. IDRIES SHAH If marriage is your object, You'd better start loving your subject. If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject. SOURCE UNKNOWN The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forg... HUSSEIN ABDALLAH In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the mo... PAUL NAT The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
To saints whose lives are better than his own. CHARLES CHURCHILL I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Isla... ANNIE BESANT Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better. EDWARD W. HOWE Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. EDGAR WATSON HOWE Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. E. W. HOWE Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six SHERRILYN KENYON No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very lovin... JAMES E. FAUST A person who thinks that he knows something better doesn’t know that his wife knows better than hi... VIKRANT PARSAI You're achieving God's mission for humanity and country through capitalism, but by Christianity and ... ANDREW CARNEGIE It's tough when loving family and friends die. It's a shame, but he's in a better place now. JEFF KIRK There are different kinds of love you experience in life. Loving someone differently doesn't mean lo... NELY CAB A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving
favour rather than silver and gold... BIBLE Surround yourself with people who are better than you and you will become better yourself. MICHAEL B. KITSON For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and ... MARK GALLI His problem is that he has to convince people in his own party that he can be a better candidate tha... BRUNO JEANBART A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his me... FREDERICK W. SMITH He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique ... THEODOR ADORNO Surround yourself with people who are better than you and you will become better yourself. MICHAEL B. KITSON They're better at every position than us. If we don't execute better than we did tonight, we'll lose... DUGGAR BAUCOM Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Sugar candy tasted better than bitter truth. TOBA BETA I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. FRIDA KAHLO I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person... CORNEL WEST A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortu... RICHARD WHATELY A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune... RICHARD WHATELY Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood. DANISH PROVERB Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood. DANISH PROVERB A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. JOSEPH JOUBERT A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve JOSEPH JOUBERT Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood. DANISH PROVERB So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos... ALAN WATTS Loves by all pros and cons is better than force it to look perfect CG9SYXJHZGL0AWE= He can shoot the ball. His form is better than Bryce's. He and Jake have a better pure shot. MATT MCKAY We are advertis'd by our loving friends. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. JULIA CHILD Prevention is better than cure. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. WINSTON CHURCHILL It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich. OLGA KORBUT Exuberance is better than taste. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nothing's better than a picnic. ZOOEY DESCHANEL A new untruth is better than an old truth. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this ... DOROTHY DAY We are advertised by our loving friends WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks o... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE So lonely 'twas that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a chi... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Good and bad men are less than they seem. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Silence is a friend who will never betray. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the ca... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless
malignity--how awful it is! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to
her daughter, that her daughter's d... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor a... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Life went a-Maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;
When I was young!
When I was young?--Ah... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obsce... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book t... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The ice was here, the ice was there, / The ice was all around; / It cracked and growled, and roared ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or churc... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks int... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what he wan... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE . . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day alrea... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks,
silent as the shadows. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need r... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Whic... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, &a... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of t... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, ar... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a c... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Friendship is a sheltering tree. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any d... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kis... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She se... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it --... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obsce... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly f... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease,
Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,
To make the... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And so, his senses gradually wrapt
In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds,
And dreaming h... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach-house,
A cottage of gentility!
And the Devil did grin, fo... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book t... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of Lov... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Treading beneath their feet all visible things,
As steps that upwards to their Father's throne
... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or an... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kis... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And the spring comes slowly up this way. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it
through an intermediate state of obscuri... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE We were a ghastly crew. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Its body brevity, and wit its soul. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE God's child in Christ adopted -- Christ my all -- What that earth boasts were not lost cheaply, rath... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there i... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Ea... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's
shoulders to mount on. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry: the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,/ Whether the summer clothe the general earth/ With gre... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A great poet must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in the silent desert, the eye of a North Ame... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illu... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obsce... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No man does anything from a single motive SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Silence does not always mark wisdom. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Signals, Drums, Guns, Bells, & the sound of Voices weighing up & clearing Anchors ... Monday April 9... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need r... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in ever... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No one does anything from a single motive. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat
countries with spire steeples, whi... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE And a good south wind sprung up behind,
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or p... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE For why drives on that ship so fast,
Without or wave or wind?
The air is cut away before,
... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wep... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 'Tis the merry nightingale
That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates
With fast thick warble h... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, w... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to Heaven ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, t... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ah! replied my gentle fair,
Beloved, what are names but air?
Choose thou, whatever suits the ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus... 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 A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No man does anything from a single motive SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, No... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The ice was here, the ice was there, / The ice was all around; / It cracked and growled, and roared ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The moving moon went up the sky, / And nowhere did abide: / Softly she was going up, / And a star or... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illu... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Schiller has the material sublime. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Whether the eave-drops fall / Heard only in the trances of the blast, / Or if the secret ministry of... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He holds him with his glittering eye--
. . . .
And listens like a three years' child. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I never think of the future--it comes soon enough. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE – I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flow... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The guests are met, the feast is set. / May'st hear the merry din. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eye... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ancestral voices prophesying war. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by
cutting too close with the fiery four-i... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course? SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- i... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has pa... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intel... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone witho... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a s... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I bless'd them unaware. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all nigh... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE