Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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As 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.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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