Famous quotes containing the word coleridge:
“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 (1772–1834)
“O Lady! we receive but what we give,
And in our life alone does Nature live:”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)