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Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

A dead body revenges not injuries.

A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art degraded, Imagination denied.

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

As a man is, so he sees.

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.

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

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

Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!

Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

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

Celebrate your existence!

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

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