John Stuart Blackie Quotes
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Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.
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Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,But God to man doth speak in solitude.
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Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.
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All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.
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Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.
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The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
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All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.
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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
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A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.