More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
“Hacket’s Life of Lord Keeper Williams”, notes published in The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 3 (1838), ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge, p. 186To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part,
Makes up life’s tale to many a feeling heart!“On taking Leave of ————“, l. 1 (1817)- “A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)
More about truth and lies
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In contextA lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
