How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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