Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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 [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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