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 COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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 is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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