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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThis world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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