I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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 Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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