Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.
Every harlot was a virgin once.
Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.
I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?
Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
Execution is the chariot of genius.
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
Shame is pride's cloak.
Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?
Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.
More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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