He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDay after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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