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"Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!"
"I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill"
"The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!"
"The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates, Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates."
"Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading."
"The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood."
"All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion."
"To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too."
"When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together."
"The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave."
"[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning."
"Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please."
"Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make."
"God is the poetic genius in each of us."
"The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks."
"I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation."
"Time is the Mercy of Eternity"
"What has reason to do with the art of painting?"
"To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration"
"A dead body revenges not injuries."