My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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