Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOf no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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 .
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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