Samuel Taylor Coleridge föddes den October 21st1772 och dog den 25 July 1834 - English writer
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What comes from the heart, goes to the heart
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul
When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.
Whether the eave-drops fall / Heard only in the trances of the blast, / Or if the secret ministry of frost / Shall hang them up in silent icicles, / Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
With Donne whose muse on dromedary trots, / Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea.
You abuse snuff ! Perhaps it is the final cause of the human nose.
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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