Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Be Good

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.285

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Deeds, Stills

• Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Necks, Albatross

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.25, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

• Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Arches, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 295, 1895.

• God grant me grace my prayers to say:
  O God! preserve my mother dear,
  In strength and health for many a year;
  And O! preserve my father too,
  And may I pay him reverence due;
  And may I my best thoughts employ
  To be my parents' hope and joy;
  And O! preserve my brothers both
  From evil doings, and from sloth,
  And may we always love each other,
  Our friends, our father, and our mother,
  And still, O Lord, to me impart
  An innocent and grateful heart,
  That after my last sleep I may
  Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mother, Brother, Prayer

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1880). “The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”

• False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2005). “AIDS to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

• In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Rocks, Evil, Soul

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1843). “Aids to Reflection”, p.436

• Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, School, Blessing

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