To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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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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