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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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