Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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