Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry: the best words in the best order.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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