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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMen 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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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