The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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