Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA sight to dream of, not to tell!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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