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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

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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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The eye altering, alters all.

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He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

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A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.

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This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

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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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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

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Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

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Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

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

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To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

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Without contraries there is no progression.

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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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What has reason to do with the art of painting?

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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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