It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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