Christopher Smart Quotes

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For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey.…
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.

Christopher Smart
Ma'm, architecture you're not skill'd in, I don't approve your way of building; In this there's nothing like design, Pray learn the use of Gunter's line.

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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

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Glorious the sun in mid-career; Glorious th' assembled fires appear.

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Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

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For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

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For every word has its marrow in the English tongue for order and for delight.

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Of the poet Thomas Gray:
He walks as if he had fouled his small-clothes, and looks as if he smelt it.

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Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink.

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But stronger still, in earth and air,
And in the sea, the man of pray'r;
And far beneath the tide;
And in the seat to faith assigned,
Where ask is have, where seek is find,
Where knock is open wide.

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For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

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Ah! Posthumus, the years, the years
Glide swiftly on, nor can our tears
Or piety the wrinkled age forefend,
Or for one hour retard th' inevitable end.

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Nature's decorations glisten
Far above their usual trim;
Birds on box and laurels listen,
As so near the cherubs hymn.

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Glorious the northern lights astream;
Glorious the song, when God's the theme;
Glorious the thunder's roar.

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Too hard for any frog's digestion,
To have his froghood call'd in question!

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For the Mouse (mus) prevails in the Latin.
For Edi-mus, bibi-mus, vivi-mus, oremus.

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Beauteous the garden's umbrage mild,
Walk, water, meditated wild,
And all the bloomy beds.

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For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.

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For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

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Strong is the lion—like a coal
His eye-ball—like a bastion's mole
His chest against his foes.

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There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

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For Charity is cold in the multitude of possessions, and the rich are covetous of their crumbs.

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Night with all her negro train,
Took possession of the plain;
In an hearse she rode reclin'd.
Drawn by screech-owls slow and blind:
Close to her, with printless feet,
Crept Stillness in a winding sheet.

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Tell them I Am, Jehovah said To Moses; while earth heard in dread, And smitten to the heart, At once above, beneath, around, All nature, without voice or sound, Replied, O Lord, Thou art.

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And now the matchless deed's achiev'd, Determin'd, dar'd, and done.

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For adoration all the ranks Of angels yield eternal thanks, And David in the midst.

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Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barber-black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber-red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

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God all-bounteous, all-creative,
Whom no ills from good dissuade,
Is incarnate, and a native
Of the very world he made.

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