He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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