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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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