The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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