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“A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”
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“A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
“The eye altering, alters all.”
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“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.”
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
“Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.”
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”
“I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!”
“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”
“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”
“Exuberance is beauty.”
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
“It is right it should be so, Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go.”
“A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.”
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
“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.”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”
“To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.”
“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
“Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.”
“Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.”
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
“May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.”
“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
“Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
“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 Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”
“I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.”
“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”
“To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.”
“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”