Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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 first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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