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Men are respectable only as they respect
Men are respectable only as they respect
The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers
How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the read more
How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations!
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than read more
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel
Bid the Devil take the slowest.
Bid the Devil take the slowest.
The devil, my friends, is a woman just now.
'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
The devil, my friends, is a woman just now.
'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
