661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.