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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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