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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dance, Children, Dancing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.158

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Children, Years, Mind

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Children, Would Be, World
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2008). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works”, Oxford Paperbacks

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Children, Character, Years

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mother, Children, Sake
'Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me' (1797)

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Children, Pain, Men

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

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Children, Eye, Years
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 1

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death, Children, Philosophy

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Girl, Morning, Children
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.119

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