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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

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To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

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The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

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Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

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The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

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The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.

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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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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

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What has reasoning to do with painting?

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The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

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Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

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