Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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