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When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

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Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

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You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

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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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What is now proved was once only imagined.

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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

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Joy and woe are woven fine.

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

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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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The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

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When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

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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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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

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If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

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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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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

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