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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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