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In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Faith, Christian, Heart

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Broken, Together, Doe
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt, James Gillman (2015). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge”, p.923, e-artnow

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Woe, Fellowship, Taught
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of the Author”, p.18

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Horny, Devil, Horns
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.339

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men, Ideas, Opposites
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1913*). “Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Autumn, Ballet, Red Leaves
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Plays of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Dramatic Works of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel; including The Piccolomini, The Death of Wallenstein, Remorse”, p.20, e-artnow

Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Long, Poetry, March
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1997). “Selected Poetry”, Oxford University Press, USA

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Self, Poison, Half

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book, Men, May

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humorous, Devil, Extremes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “Lectures Upon Shakspeare”, p.279, Classic Books Company

Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stars, Men, Born
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt, James Gillman (2015). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge”, p.22, e-artnow

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Country, Men, Blood
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

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Night, Fire, Ballet
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.184, Pearson Education

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lazy, Genius, Treasure

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Inspirational, Intelligence, Mind

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Punishment, Fulfillment, Sentences
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.695

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Loss, Men, Gains

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fall, Science, Men
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. R. De J. Jackson (2000). “Lectures 1818-1819 on the history of philosophy”, Bollingen Foundation

The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Struggle, Echoes, Agency
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “Biographia Literaria: Top Biography”, p.123, 谷月社

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sweet, Brain, Furniture
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2012). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.52, Courier Corporation

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death, Children, Philosophy

You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Country, Class, Doing You
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reading, Effort, Curiosity
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.369

How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Country, Sex, Men
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3377, Delphi Classics

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fall, Wind, Life And Death
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.484

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