Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELove is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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