“When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree”

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Hatred conquers the sea in which is growing thee them tiny pearls struggling a little trying to solve the final riddle.

To bloom is to grow. To grow is to know the one who created x Died for my soul.

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

We only stop growing when we resist change.