Sara Coleridge Short Quotes

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January brings the snow,
Makes our feet and fingers glow.

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Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gilly flowers.

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Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

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

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March brings breezes loud and shrill,
Stirs the dancing daffodil.

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May brings flocks of pretty lambs,
Skipping by their fleecy dams.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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