Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBe not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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