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.
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.
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.
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.
If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.
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.
There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?
Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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.
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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.
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.
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.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
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