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“excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.”
“As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
“A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.”
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
“He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.”
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
“The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence”
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
“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.”
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”
“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”