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 COLERIDGEThe most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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