It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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