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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and...

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Quote by Samuel Beckett about companies, miracle, contentment

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Quote by Samuel Butler about friendship, money

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Quote by Samuel Beckett about advice

Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice

Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice

Quote by Samuel Miller Hageman about earth, voice

To be alone with Silence is to be alone with God

To be alone with Silence is to be alone with God

Quote by Samuel Miller Hageman about god, silence

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save...

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about people, destruction, nation, death, man

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about man, old, olderness, woman

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.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it...

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, advice, mind

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs...

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about love

Friendship is a sheltering tree

Friendship is a sheltering tree

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about friendship

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about politics, end, failure, fear

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once...

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, language, past, future, mind, human imperfections

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, enthusiasm, nothing

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind...

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about idea

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about humor, genius, people

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their...

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about people, man, contentment

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should...

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about philosophy, people, death, bad luck, bad, things

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about love, friendship

$The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -the...$

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

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about happiness, kiss, smile, life

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