To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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