Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel Quotations

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.