Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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