What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
It 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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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