1. “A dog starved at his master's gate / Predicts the ruin of the State.”
2. “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
3. ”Always be ready to speak you mind and a base man will avoid you.”
4. "And because I am happy and dance and sing,
They think they have done me no injury."
5. “And I made a rural pen, / And I stained the water clear, / And I wrote my happy songs / Every child may joy to hear.”
6. “And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys and desires.”
7. “A robin red breast in a cagePuts all heaven in a rage.”
8. “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.”
9. “A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.”
10. “A Truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.”
11. “Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?”
12. “Cruelty has a human heart, / And Jealousy a human face; / Terror the human form divine,/ And Secrecy the human dress.”
13. “Damn braces. Bless relaxes.”
14. “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?”
15. “Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.”
16. "Energy is eternal delight"
17. “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
18. “Every Night and every MornSome to Misery are born.Every Morn and every NightSome are born to Sweet Delight,Some are born to Endless Night.”
19. “Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.”
20. “Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.”
21. “Every wolf 's and lion's howl / Raises from Hell a human soul.”
22. “Exuberance is beauty.”
23. “`Father, O father! what do we here / In this land of unbelief and fear? / The Land of Dreams is better far, / Above the light of the morning star.'”
24. “For everything exists and notone sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.”
25. “For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”
26. “For the tear is an intellectual thing,And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King;And the bitter groan of a martyr's woeAs an arrow from the Almighty's bow.”
27. ”God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!”
28. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.”
29. “Hear the voice of the Bard! / Who present, past, and future sees; / Whose ears have heard/ The Holy Word / That walked among the ancient trees.”
30. “He who binds to himself a joydoth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as itflies lives in Eternity's sunrise.”
31. “He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.”
32. “He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
33. “He who shall hurt the little wren / Shall never be beloved by men.”
34. “He who shall teach the child to doubt / The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.”
35. “He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.”
36. “Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.”
37. “I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.”
38. "I care not whether a Man is Good or Evil; all that I care is whether he is a Wise Man or a Fool. Go! Put off Holiness And put on intellect.”
39. “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
40. “If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise.”
41. “If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.”
42. “`I have no name: / I am but two days old.' / What shall I call thee? / `I happy am, / Joy is my name.' / Sweet joy befall thee!”
43. “I love laughing.”
44. “Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
45. “Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvements are roads of genius.”
46. “I mock thee not, though I by thee am mocked; / Thou call'st me madman, but I call thee blockhead.”
47. “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my Business is to create.”
48. “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
49. “I see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep, / And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. / I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once / Before me.”
50. "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."
51. 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.”
52. “I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”
53. “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, butfor another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
54. ”Man was made for joy and woe,and when this we rightly know,through the world we safely go.Joy and woe are woven fine,A clothing for the soul divine.”
55. “Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.”
56. “My Spectre around me night and day / Like a wild beast guards my way; / My Emanation far within / Weeps incessantly for my sin.”
57. “Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly.”
58. "No bird soars too high, if he soars on his own wings."
59. “One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression.”
60. “Opposition is true friendship.”
61. “O Rose, thou art sick! / The invisible worm,/ That flies in the night, / In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy; / And his dark secret love / Does thy life destroy.”
62. “O! why was I born with a different face? / Why was I not born like the rest of my race?”
63. “Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.”
64. “Shame is Pride's cloak.”
65. “Soon as she was gone from me, / A traveller came by, / Silently, invisibly: / He took her with a sigh.”
66. “The Angel that presided o'er my birthSaid, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth,Go love without the help of any thing on earth.”
67. “The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.”
68. “The eye altering, alters all.”
69. “The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
70. “The man who never in his mind and thought travelled to heaven, is no artist.... Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.... Passion and expression are beauty itself.”
71. “The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
72. “The pride of the peacock is the glory of God./ The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. / The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. / The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”
73. “There is a smile of Love,/ And there is a smile of Deceit, / And there is a smile of smiles / In which these two smiles meet.”
74. “Then I asked: `Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?' He replied: `All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'”
75. “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
76. “The sound is forced, the notes are few!”
77. “The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
78. “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. / Eat in the evening. / Sleep in the night.”
79. "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."
80. "Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled."
22. “Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
23. “To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”
24. “To generalize is to be an idiot.”
25. "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."
26. "The Nature of Visionary Fancy, or Imagination, is very little Known..."
27. “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.”
28. “Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.”
29. ”Use what talents you possess;
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
30. “What is now proved was once only imagin'd.”
31. “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.”
32. "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."
33. “Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
34. “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
35. “You smile with pomp and rigor, youtalk of benevolence and virtue;I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.”
