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God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

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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 stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

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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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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

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Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.

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Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

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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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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

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

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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

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Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.

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There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

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