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Never pursue literature as a trade.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
Critic
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Ottery St Mary
Devon
S. T. Coleridge
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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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Intellect really exists in its products its kingdom is here.
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
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A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.
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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
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The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
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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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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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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
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