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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.
Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?
It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.
Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.
The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.
Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.
The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?
I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.
So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.
Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.
I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.
O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.
... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.