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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

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Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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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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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

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Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

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The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

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If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

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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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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

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Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.

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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

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The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

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When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

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