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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe 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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Of 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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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