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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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