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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

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If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

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

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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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Imitation is criticism.

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But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

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Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

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God is the poetic genius in each of us.

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The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

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One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

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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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