No man does anything from a single motive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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