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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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