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 COLERIDGEWhat comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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 faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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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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