I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.
I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.
What has reasoning to do with painting?
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!
Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.
He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.
Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.
Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.
Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
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