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 COLERIDGETo believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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