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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.
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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.
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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.
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All nature seems at work.
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Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.
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Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
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Rage is essentially vulgar.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, 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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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.
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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
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Remorse weeps tears of blood.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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