Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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