Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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