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.
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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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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