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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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