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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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