Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESummer has set in with its usual severity.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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