Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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