More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its a…
  2. The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the l…
  3. Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud - We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies th…
  4. Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name …
  5. A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the earth.
  6. Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
  7. O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.
  8. Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

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