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He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Topic: Actions
Source: None
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath die end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Topic: Anger
Source: Christian Forbearance
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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayest rest
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
Topic: Autumn
Source: To Autumn (st. 1)
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Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles.
Topic: Babyhood
Source: A Cradle Song
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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God appears, and God is Light, To those poor souls who dwell in Night; But does a Human Form display To those who dwell in realms of Day.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Topic: Cunning
Source: None
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But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.
Topic: Education
Source: The Schoolboy (st. 2)
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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Topic: Education
Source: The Schoolboy (st. 2)
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To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
Topic: Eternity
Source: None
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Topic: Fools
Source: None
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England's fold,
Behold this gate of pearl and gold!
- William Blake,
Topic: Grave
Source: Dedication of the Designs to Blair's "Grave"--TO Queen Charlotte
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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
Topic: Idiots
Source: None
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He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise
Topic: Independence
Source: None
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To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower:
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Topic: Innocence
Source: Auguries of Innocence
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Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.
Topic: Jealousy
Source: None
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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
Topic: Joy
Source: None
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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Topic: Laughter
Source: Laughing Song
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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.
Topic: Literary
Source: None
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I rose up at the dawn of day,--
"Get thee away! get thee away!
Pray'st thou for riches? Away, away!
This is the throne of Mammon grey."
Topic: Mammon
Source: Mammon
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As a man is, so he sees.
Topic: Observation
Source: None
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Topic: Observation
Source: None
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Topic: Opinions
Source: None
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Opposition is true friendship.
Topic: Opposition
Source: None
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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
Topic: Piety
Source: None
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
Topic: Please title this page. (mercy.html)
Source: None
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O thou who passest through our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer,
Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft
Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld
With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
Topic: Summer
Source: To Summer
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One thought fills immensity.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical
Demonstration!
Topic: Truth
Source: circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses"
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Topic: Truth
Source: circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses"
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A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Mammon
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Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Riches
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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,
Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,
Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.
Topic: Winter
Source: To Winter
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Tools were made and born with hands,
Every farmer understands.
Topic: Work
Source: Proverbs
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The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Topic: Wrath
Source: None
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