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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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 prayeth best who loveth best.
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