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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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