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James F. Cooper [1789-1851] American Novelist
Quote rank: 105

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I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?

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Imagination, Poetry

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