The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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