"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
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"Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead."
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"Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it."
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"The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory."
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"Dip him in the river who loves water."
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"You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time."
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"Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright."
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"I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace."
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"When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!"
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"The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles."
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"Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine."
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"Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance."
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"Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy."
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"Work up imagination to the state of vision."
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"Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them."
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"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."
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"The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved."
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"The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown."
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"The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass."
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"Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage."
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