Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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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.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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