Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe 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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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.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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