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Shame is pride's cloak.

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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

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Work up imagination to the state of vision.

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

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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.

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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Energy is eternal delight.

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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

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Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near.

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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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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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

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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'.

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We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

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