Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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