Sara Coleridge Quotes

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

  Sara Coleridge

  Feet, Snow, January

  Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7

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• Hot July brings cooling showers,
  Apricots and gillyflowers.

  Sara Coleridge

  Summer, July, Hot

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (2007). “Collected Poems”, Carcanet Press

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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 then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!

  Sara Coleridge

  Powerful, Eye, Men

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.103

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• there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

  Sara Coleridge

  Facts, Uncertain, Slippery

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.190

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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 question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.

  Sara Coleridge

  Would Be, Waste, Arguing

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.136

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

  Sara Coleridge

  Summer, Children, June

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1853). “Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme”, p.10

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

  Sara Coleridge

  Fire, December, Chill

  Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.8

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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 must feel the separation at first as a severe wrench. But I did not apprehend, during her life, to what a degree she prevented me from feeling heart-solitude.

  Sara Coleridge

  Mother, Heart, Should Have

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.345

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

  Sara Coleridge

  Wall, Growing Up, Differences

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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, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.

  Sara Coleridge

  Ice, Expectations, Smoking

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.145

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

  Sara Coleridge

  Imagination, Greed, Disease

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.131

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

  Sara Coleridge

  Nuts, Pheasants, October

  "Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme".

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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.

  Sara Coleridge

  Soul, Use, Life Is

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.164

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• February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.

  Sara Coleridge

  Rain, Lakes, Frozen Lake

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1853). “Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme”, p.9

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

  Sara Coleridge

  Dull, November, Blast

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1853). “Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme”, p.10

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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 almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.

  Sara Coleridge

  Husband, Children, Heart

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.65

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

  Sara Coleridge

  Sweet, Feet, April

  Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7

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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 woman.

  Sara Coleridge

  Strong, Book, Men

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.175

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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 vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

  Sara Coleridge

  Vanity, Self, Desire

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.373

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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. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.

  Sara Coleridge

  Flower, Ideas, Greek

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.169

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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 it.

  Sara Coleridge

  Religious, Flames, Fire

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.260

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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 had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.

  Sara Coleridge

  Country, Blessed, Past

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.139

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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 happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

  Sara Coleridge

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Leisure

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.128

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• I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my child through an atmosphere which illuminates, magnifies, and at the same time refines the object to a degree that amounts to a delusion.

  Sara Coleridge

  Children, Mean, Parent

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.70

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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 hand as a cow with a musket.

  Sara Coleridge

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.380

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