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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGECommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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