A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about people, destruction, nation, death, man
Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
Was born on 21 oct 1972. Died on 25 jul 1834, at -139 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about man, old, olderness, woman
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, advice, mind
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about love
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about politics, end, failure, fear
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, language, past, future, mind, human imperfections
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, enthusiasm, nothing
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about idea
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about humor, genius, people
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about people, man
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, people, bad luck, bad, things
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about love, friendship
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about happiness, kiss, smile, life
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about marriage, union, blind, happiness, woman, man
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about talent, lie, genius, action, imagination, reason, being
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; 3. Hope to all.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about politics, end, security, nation, hope
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about art, language, imagination
