Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe prayeth best who loveth best.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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