It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe prayeth best who loveth best.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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