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 COLERIDGENothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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