What comes from the heart goes to the heart
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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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.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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