What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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