What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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