Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Trade

Quotes about: Trade

• 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.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wish, Literature, Beginning Middle And End

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.133

• Never pursue literature as a trade.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Literature, Trade, Pursue

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1847). “Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.231

• The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Daughter, Children, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1054, Delphi Classics

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