661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;It is the reflex of our earthly frame,That takes its meaning from the nobler part,And but translates the language of the heart.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure;No plot so narrow, be but Nature there,No waste so vacant, but may well employEach faculty of sense, and keep the heartAwake to Love and Beauty! and sometimes'Tis well to be bereft of promis'd good,That we may lift the soul, and contemplateWith lively joy the joys we cannot share.

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.