As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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