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My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

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The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

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Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

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Art degraded, Imagination denied.

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And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

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I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

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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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And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

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There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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Gratitude is heaven itself.

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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

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Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

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My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

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