I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBlest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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