The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Quotes

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by Incapacity.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.