Painters From England

"Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion."

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

"All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap."

"The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure."

"The busy bee has no time for sorrow."

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. He whose face gives no light shall never become a star."

"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"Opposition is true Friendship."

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite."

"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling."

"And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear."

"Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe, After night I do crowd, And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light doth seize my brain With frantic pain."

"How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!"

"Damn sneerers!"

"True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man."

"Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance."

"Active Evil is better than Passive Good."

"They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin."

"Sing louder around To the bells' cheerful sound, While our sports shall be seen On the ecchoing green."

"And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love, And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove."

"My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light."

"Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly bright."

"Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more."

"Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear."

"The true method of knowledge is experiment."

"There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness."

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."

"Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?"

"How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!"

"He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty."

"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."