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 COLERIDGEBlest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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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 wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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