Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Gems

Quotes about: Gems

• The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Blue, Forget

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.145

• Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Success, Country

• 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

• The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Running, Reading, Class

• Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Book, Mean

  "Lives of Northern Worthies".

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