Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The blending of talents bestows greatness upon nations."

"Beneath the stars of thought lay sleeping dreams of ages past."

"What is life but a series of inspired follies?"

"The deepest rivers make the least noise."

"Time is the life of the soul."

"We know that we abide in him who is true because we are in him who is true."

"Every man hath business and desire such as it is."

"Metrical feet, thus may be scanned every English word that's ever been planned."

"The finest words cannot capture the truth of a feeling."

"Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument."

"In every joy there is a drop of fear."

"To be discontented with the divine discontent and to be ashamed with noble shame is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue."

"Genuine happiness must arise from within."

"Common sense is the genius of mankind."

"All things bright and beautiful are made by love."

"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude."

"The most beautiful sounds in the world are a child's laughter and truth spoken plainly."

"Nature reveals herself through the eyes of those who truly see."

"Knowledge is not the same as wisdom; one is gathering information, the other its application."

"The philosopher's stone is within us all."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress."

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."

"The heart's strongest voice is often silence."

"Every day should be a new beginning."

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall understand true beauty."

"The greatest works are created by those who refuse to settle."

"Music is the mathematics of the heart."

"In love, we find ourselves by losing ourselves."

"Truth is not determined by majority vote or powerful rhetoric."