I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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