Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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