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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. - [Fools] All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. - [Futurity] As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. - [Curses] Do what you will this life's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. - [Life] Energy is eternal delight. - [Energy] Eternity is in love with the productions of time. - [Eternity] Expect poison from the standing water. - [Water] Exuberance is beauty. - [Abundance] Great things are done when men and mountains meet. - [Greatness] If a fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise. - [Fools] If a thing loves, it is infinite. - [Love] If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. - [Providence] If others had not been foolish, we should be so. - [Folly] If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. - [Perception] Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. - [Improvement] Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern. - [Narrow-mindedness] No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - [Individuality] One thought fills immensity. - [Thought] Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity. - [Prudence] Sweet sleep, with soft down Weave thy brows an infant crown! Sweet sleep, angel mild, Hover o'er my happy child. - [Babies] The eye altering, alters all. - [Seeing] The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory. - [Glory] The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - [Excess] The whole of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - [Excess : Wisdom] Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. - [Desire] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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