They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.
What needs my for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st t...
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us.
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence.
Ye cannot make us now lesse capable, lesse knowing, lesse eagarly pursuing of the Truth, unlesse ye first make yourselves that made us so, lesse the lovers, lesse the founders of our true Liberty. We...
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
Commands are no constraints.
Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.
Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties.
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Wickedness is weakness.
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.
He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by...
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