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| Quote #1: | "This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye." |
| Quote #2: | "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." |
| Quote #3: | "When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." |
| Quote #4: | "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." |
| Quote #5: | "Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too." |
| Quote #6: | "A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent." |
| Quote #7: | "Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise." |
| Quote #8: | "I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow." |
| Quote #9: | "He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe." |
| Quote #10: | "When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite." |
| Quote #11: | "It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only." |
| Quote #12: | "He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise." |
| Quote #13: | "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness." |
| Quote #14: | "For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress." |
| Quote #15: | "The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." |
| Quote #16: | "What is now proved was once only imagined." |
| Quote #17: | "You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them." |
| Quote #18: | "He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence." |
| Quote #19: | "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 dispite." |
| Quote #20: | "Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake." |
| Quote #21: | "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." |
| Quote #22: | "The weak in courage is strong in cunning." |
| Quote #23: | "To generalize is to be an idiot." |
| Quote #24: | "I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's." |
| Quote #25: | "And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury." |
| Quote #26: | "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." |
| Quote #27: | "To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." |
| Quote #28: | "My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud." |
| Quote #29: | "Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance." |
| Quote #30: | "Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." |
| Quote #31: | "Energy is eternal delight." |
| Quote #32: | "I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me." |
| Quote #33: | "As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs." |
| Quote #34: | "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained." |
| Quote #35: | "When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head" |
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