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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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