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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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