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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Coleridge compares advice to falling snow, suggesting that the gentler and more softly it's delivered, the longer it lingers and the more deeply it settles into a person's mind. It's a poetic observation about how subtlety, rather than force, allows guidance to truly take hold.
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