Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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