"Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has……" — Charles Lamb
"Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity."
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192 Quotes by Charles Lamb
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing…
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in…
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and…
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody…
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
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Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The…
— William Wordsworth
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When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety!…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and…
— Loren Eiseley
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I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as…
— Sharon Salzberg
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I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and…
— Billy Collins
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As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which…
— Gerald Brenan
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am…
— Charles Lamb
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
— Sidney Sheldon
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I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more…
— John Ruskin
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