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The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's
shoulders to mount on.
Topic: Ability
Source: The Friend (sect. I, essay VIII)
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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Topic: Advice
Source: None
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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And a good south wind sprung up behind,
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo!
"God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends that plague thus thee!--
Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross."
Topic: Albatrosses
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. I, st. 18)
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Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
And to be wrothe with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.
Topic: Anger
Source: Christabel (pt. II)
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The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. III)
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Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.
Topic: Beauty
Source: Christabel (pt. I, st. 24)
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A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I bless'd them unaware.
Topic: Blessings
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. IV)
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A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
Topic: Brooks
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. V, st. 18)
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Lovely was the death
Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power,
He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed
Manifest Godhead.
Topic: Christ
Source: Religious Musings (l. 29)
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If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction whatever contained in it of that stupendous event, the rise and establishment of Christianity, in comparison with which all the preceding Jewish history is as nothing. With the exception of the book of Daniel, which the Jews themselves never classed among the prophecies, and an obscure text of Jeremiah, there is not a passage in all the Old Testament which favours the notion of a temporal Messiah. What moral object was there, for which such a Messiah should come? What could he have been but a sort of virtuous Napoleon?
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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God's child in Christ adopted -- Christ my all -- What that earth boasts were not lost cheaply, rather Than forfeit that blest name, by which I call The Holy One, the Almighty God, my Father? -- Father! in Christ we live, and Christ in Thee -- Eternal Thou and everlasting we. The heir of heaven, henceforth I fear not death: In Christ I live! in Christ I draw the breath Of the true life! -- let then earth, sea, and sky Make war against me! On my front I show Their mighty Master's seal. In vain they try To end my life, that can but end its woe. Is that a death-bed where a Christian lies? Yes, but not his -- 'tis Death itself there dies.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat
countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred
to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and
stars.
Topic: Churches
Source: The Friend
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O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease,
Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,
To make the shifting clouds be what you please,
Or let the easily persuaded eyes
Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould
Of a friend's fancy.
Topic: Clouds
Source: Fancy in Nubibus
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The Past lives o'er again,
In its effects, and to the guilty spirit
The ever-frowning Present is its image.
Topic: Conscience
Source: Remorse (act I, sc. 2)
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets,
historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried
their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore
they turn critics.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (p. 36)
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Dew-drops are the gems of morning,
But the tears of mournful eve!
Topic: Dew
Source: Youth and Age
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My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Topic: Dreams
Source: A Day Dream
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And so, his senses gradually wrapt
In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds,
And dreaming hears thee still, O singing lark;
That singest like an angel in the clouds.
Topic: Dreams
Source: Fears in Solitude
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For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Topic: Eating
Source: Kubla Khan
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Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to Heaven conveyed,
And bade it blossom there.
Topic: Epitaphs
Source: Epitaph on an Infant
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A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
Topic: Experience
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VII, last st.)
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A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
Topic: Experience
Source: None
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My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Topic: Eyes
Source: A Day Dream
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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.
Topic: Fear
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VI)
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O what a loud and fearful shriek was there!
. . .
Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword
Fallen Kosciusco.
Topic: Freedom
Source: Sonnet
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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what he wants to do.
Topic: Freedom
Source: Sonnet
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Topic: Friendship
Source: Youth and Age
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. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Topic: Future
Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.
Topic: Future
Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
Topic: Future
Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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While many a glowworm in the shade
Lights up her love torch.
Topic: Glowworms
Source: The Nightingale
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Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone.
Topic: Gods
Source: The Visits of the Gods, imitated from Schiller
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How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.
Topic: Grace
Source: None
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Treading beneath their feet all visible things,
As steps that upwards to their Father's throne
Lead gradual.
Topic: Growth
Source: Religious Musings
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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Those holies of themselves a shape
As of an arbor took.
Topic: Holly
Source: The Three Graves (pt. IV, st. 24)
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
Topic: Hope
Source: Work Without Hope (st. 2)
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He saw a cottage with a double coach-house,
A cottage of gentility!
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.
Topic: Humility
Source: Devil's Walk
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Silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
Topic: Icicles
Source: Frost at Midnight
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it
through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into
day through twilight.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: Essay (XVI)
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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company.
Topic: Language
Source: Biographia Literaria (ch. X)
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
Topic: Liberty
Source: France--An Ode (V)
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He holds him with his glittering eye--
. . . .
And listens like a three years' child.
Topic: Listening
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. I, st. 4), last line claimed by Wordsworth
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred
river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank
the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard
from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Topic: Literature
Source: Kubla Khan
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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Topic: Loneliness
Source: None
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