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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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