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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELove is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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