“London I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Inf...”
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“London I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Inf...”
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“A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions. A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate Predicts the ruin of...”
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“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'...”
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“But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.”
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“How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?”
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“I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.”
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“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
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“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.”
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all....”
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“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”
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“excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.”
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“And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”
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“The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now h...”
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“But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.”
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“Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.”
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“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
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“He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.”
“May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.”
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“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
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“Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
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