Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Life
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.
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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.
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And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.
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How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.
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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
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He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
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I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.
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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!
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