And in today already walks tomorrow.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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