Hartley Coleridge Quotes

#1. A bard whom there were none to praise,
And very few to read.

Hartley Coleridge

#2. Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.

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#3. But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

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#4. She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me.
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.

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#5. The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

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#6. The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.

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#7. 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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#8. Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter.

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#9. Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.

Richard C. Miller

#10. Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

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#11. Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.

Hartley Coleridge

#12. To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people
by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last
one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#13. Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome

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#14. Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

Ben Harper

#15. I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles ...

John Geddes

#16. Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.

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#17. Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?

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#18. So often I sit around and think about life and wonder about every possible aspect of it. I wonder what the hell I'm doing here.

J.A. Redmerski

#19. If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.

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#20. With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

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#21. Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

David Rolf

#22. Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

Bob Dylan

#23. On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

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#24. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
like jewels, small islands.

Gina Gershon

#25. Is love a fancy, or a feeling?

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#26. Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

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#27. The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

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#28. If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

Marvin Bower

#29. Be not afraid to pray
to pray is right.
Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray,
Though hope be weak or sick with long delay;
Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

Hartley Coleridge

#30. Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

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#31. No, only villains try to change the whole world. The rest of us take it one person at a time.

Brian K. Vaughan

#32. Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

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