Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. "

Related Quotes:

" Opposition is true friendship. "

True Friendship

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

" The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. "

" The eye altering, alters all. "

" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "

" Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. "

" You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. "

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

" The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. "

" The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. "

" Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. "

" What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! "

" Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. "

" 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. "

" Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals. "

" Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. "

" Exuberance is beauty. "

" The weak in courage is strong in cunning. "

" 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. "

" Great things are done when men and mountains meet. "

" As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. "

" Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. "

" You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. "

" In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. "

" Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? "

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

" If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. "

" Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. "

" I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. "

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