"On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity……" — Hartley Coleridge
"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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Hartley Coleridge
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19 Quotes by Hartley Coleridge
Hartley Coleridge has 19 quotes on this site.
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The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
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But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.
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Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet…
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Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray…
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Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish…
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Man is more than half of nature's treasure.
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Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine,…
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Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream,…
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Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all…
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Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or…
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Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal…
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Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this…
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