Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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