If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.
—Hartley Coleridge
Topics: One Step at a Time
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not, directly or indirectly, caused by strong drink.
—Hartley Coleridge
Topics: Drunkenness
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
—Hartley Coleridge
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
—Hartley Coleridge
Topics: Compliments
Rage is essentially vulgar, and never more vulgar than when it proceeds from mortified pride, disappointed ambition, or thwarted willfulness.
—Hartley Coleridge
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- Philip Larkin English Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley English Poet
- Anne Bradstreet American Poet
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