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.
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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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