Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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.
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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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