Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"[T]he soul / Reason receives, and reason is her being, / Discursive, or intuitive; discourse / Is oftest Yours, the latter most is ours, / Differing but in degree, of kind the same."
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Easier than air with air, if Spirits embrace / Total they mix."
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"[H]orrour and doubt distract / His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir / The Hell within him; for within him Hell / He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell / One step, no more than from himself, can fly / By change of place."
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Date: w. August 1814
"Yet as the Tuscan mid the snow / Of Lapland thinks on sweet Arno, / Even so for ever shall she be / The Halo of my Memory."
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Date: 1817
"When by my solitary hearth I sit, / And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom."
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Date: 1817
"But what is higher beyond thought than thee?"
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Date: 1817
"The thought thereof is awful, sweet, and holy, / Chacing away all worldliness and folly; / Coming sometimes like fearful claps of thunder, Or the low rumblings earth's regions under; / And sometimes like a gentle whispering / Of all the secrets of some wond'rous thing / That breathes about u...
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Date: 1817
"A sense of real things come doubly strong, / And, like a muddy stream, would bear along / My soul to nothingness."
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Date: 1818
The soul knits "wingedly" with "the orbed drop of light" that is love
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