My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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