Democracy 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.
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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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