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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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