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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

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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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Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

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Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

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The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

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Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

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

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Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

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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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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

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O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

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

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Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

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I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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