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There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

The heart is its own Fate.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

My favoured temple is in an humble heart.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

As the master so the valet.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Imagination is the air of mind.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too. - Philip James Bailey, Festus

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sum what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.