"The ruins of time build mansions in eternity."
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"Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?"
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"The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common."
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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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"We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye."
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"Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace."
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"Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty."
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"Art degraded, Imagination denied."
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"Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!"
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"Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science."
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"Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition."
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"She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me."
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"Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity."
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"The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy."
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"Nature has no outline. Imagination has."
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"I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering."
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"The lust of the goat is the bounty of God."
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"Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild."
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"Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole."
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"Imitation is criticism."
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