The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Life delights in life.
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
Without contraries there is no progression.
The eye altering, alters all.
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
Gratitude is heaven itself.
LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.
The eye sees more than the heart knows.
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