Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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