Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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