He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBrute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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