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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhen a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The 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.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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