Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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