I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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 faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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