Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMilton 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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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