Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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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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