Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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