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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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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