Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Wish Quotes, Literature Quotes

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

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All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

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Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

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Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

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Wish chastely, and love dearly.

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We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

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In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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