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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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