Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPeople of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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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.
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