Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAdvice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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