Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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 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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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