I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,
He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
For I dance And drink and sing,Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.If thought is lifeAnd strength and breathAnd the wantOf thought is deathThen am IA happy flyIf I liveOr if I die
We become what we behold.
Thou art a manGod is no more
Pity would be no more,If we did not make somebody poor.
How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy,But droop his tender wing,And forget his youthful spring?
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite & flatterer..
Expect poison from the standing water.
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
And where'er the rain does fall, Babes should never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.
And throughout all EternityI forgive you, you forgive me.
And did those feet in ancient timeWalk upon England's mountains greenAnd was the holy lamb of GodOn England's pleasant pastures seenAnd did the countenance divineShine forth upon our clouded hillsAnd...
And all must love the human form,In heathen, turk or jew;
I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear,...
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.
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
Imitation is criticism.