All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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