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 COLERIDGEAs 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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