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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?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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