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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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