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"What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death."
"The cistern contains: The fountain overflows."
"The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'."
"In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
"If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning."
"The eye sees more than the heart knows."
"Shame is pride's cloak."
"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."
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
"Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself."
"First thought is best in Art, second in other matters."
"Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!"
"He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant."
"Poetry fettered fetters the human race."
"Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands."
"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."
"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."
"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."
"And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')"
"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."