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 COLERIDGEIn the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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 was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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