Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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