The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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