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?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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