40 Quotes by Samuel Coleridge

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.

Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.

I see them all so excellently fair, / I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!

The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,/ Merrily did we drop.

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark.