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He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

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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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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

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But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

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She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

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The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

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Jerusalem (1804) 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 And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

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

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What has reasoning to do with painting?

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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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Work up imagination to the state of vision.

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The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

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Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

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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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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

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

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