Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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