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!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESummer has set in with its usual severity.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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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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