We 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.
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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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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