With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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?
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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