A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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