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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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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.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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