Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Exuberance is beauty.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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.
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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