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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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