Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDemocracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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