Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESympathy 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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