Advice is like snow - the softer it fall... by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | We Heart Quotes

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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Other quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius Being People

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Vices

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth Friends

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Words Poetry

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Animals Man

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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