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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMan thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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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?
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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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.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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