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

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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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He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

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He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

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Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

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

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And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

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

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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

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Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

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God is the poetic genius in each of us.

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Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

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