If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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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.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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