A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
More Quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel.
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And the spring comes slowly up this way.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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