Samuel Taylor Quotes

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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.

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

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

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

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.

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

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.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.