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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Best Loveth Playeth
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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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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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Great Mind Must
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Claim Essential Genuine Greatest Pleasure Poem Possesses Power Read Return
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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