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Portrait of Sara Coleridge

Sara Coleridge

(1802–1852) Linguist United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

25 quotes in 209 categories

Sara Coleridge was a linguist from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, best known for Historia de Abiponibus equestri bellicosaque Paraguariae natione.

Quick Facts About Sara Coleridge

Born: December 23, 1802
Died: May 3, 1852
Nationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Profession: Linguist
Notable works: Historia de Abiponibus equestri bellicosaque Paraguariae natione
Known for: Pretty Lessons for Good Children, Phantasmion
Spouse: Henry Nelson Coleridge

About Sara Coleridge

Sara Coleridge was an English writer and translator. She was the third child and only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Sara Coleridge

I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my…

Amount

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Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the…

Arguing

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there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

Doubt

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Fresh October brings the pheasant, The to gather nuts is pleasant.

Nuts

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June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.

Children

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Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

Engineers

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January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

Feet

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April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

April

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When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing…

Blessed

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The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall,

Differences

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The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of…

Attention

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February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.

February

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Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak,…

Comfortable

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bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even…

Age

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I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and…

Ability

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Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

Blazing

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Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

Blast

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I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and…

Blessing

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Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.

Apricots

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Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an…

Barriers

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avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

Avarice

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Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from…

Bigotry

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It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the…

Awkward

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I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea.…

Bears

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The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I…

Death

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