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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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