Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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