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 .
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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