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Imitation is criticism.

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

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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.

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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

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The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

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Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

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There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

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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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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

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I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

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He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

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The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

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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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Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

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Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

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