Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.
Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime
One thought fills immensity.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans
O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.
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