In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMan thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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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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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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