The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.
If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.
Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.
Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?
The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.
Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
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