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O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart, Sunset, Clouds
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.298

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Eye, Men, Cyclops
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.286

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Feelings, Doubt, Church
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Art, Humility, Greatness
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.335

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship, Two, Maids
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1912). “The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.1199, Library of Alexandria

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mother, Children, Sake
'Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me' (1797)

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kingdoms, Intellect, Products

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dream, Night, Waking

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truth, Humility, Goal
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.141

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Genius, Neglect, Circumstances
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James MARSH (D.D.) (1829). “Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh”, p.1

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hands, Shapes, Mechanic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1989). “Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare”

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Believe, Cat, Two

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Children, Pain, Men

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fall, Ignorance, Government
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.40

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Doe, Intention, Communicate
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.157, Princeton University Press

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book, Law, Authority

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sleep, Awake, Let Me
1798 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', pt.7.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Manners, Refinement, Strengthening

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart, Doctors, Religion
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1831). “Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton”, p.181

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Character, Angel, Men
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.364

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rogues, Fool
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.11

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Blue, Sky
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.258

Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mean, Ideas, Progress

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Taste, Occasional, Slang

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Law, Being Me, Metaphysics
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James MARSH (D.D.) (1829). “Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh”, p.397

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