Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Not 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 .
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