We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Nothing 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.
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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.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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