Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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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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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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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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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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