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 COLERIDGESympathy 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 never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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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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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 of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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