Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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