It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThis world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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