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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELanguage is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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