The Marriage of Heaven and HellLuciferianismMystical / EsotericEnglishShareThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell 4Project Gutenberg - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableProject GutenbergLanguageEnglishEspañol‹The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 2The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 3The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 4The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 5The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 6The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 7The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 8The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 9The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 10›Proverbs Of HellThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell 4ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. 2Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead. 3The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. 4Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. 5He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. 6The cut worm forgives the plough. 7Dip him in the river who loves water. 8A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. 9He whose face gives no light shall never become a star. 10Eternity is in love with the productions of time. 11The busy bee has no time for sorrow. 12The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure. 13All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap. 14Bring out number, weight, and measure in a year of dearth. 15No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. 16A dead body revenges not injuries. 17The most sublime act is to set another before you. 18If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. 19Folly is the cloak of knavery. 20Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion. 21The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. 22The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. 23The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. 24The nakedness of woman is the work of God. 25Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. 26The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of Eternity too great for the eye of man. 27The fox condemns the trap, not himself. 28Joys impregnate, sorrows bring forth. 29Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep. 30The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. 31The selfish smiling fool and the sullen frowning fool shall be both thought wise that they may be a rod. 32What is now proved was once only imagined. 33The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbit watch the roots; the lion, the tiger, the horse, the elephant watch the fruits. 34The cistern contains, the fountain overflows. 35One thought fills immensity. 36Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. 37Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth. 38The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow. 39The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion. 40Think in the morning, act in the noon, eat in the evening, sleep in the night. 41He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you. 42As the plough follows words, so God rewards prayers. 43The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. 44Expect poison from the standing water. 45You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. 46Listen to the fool's reproach; it is a kingly title. 47The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth. 48The weak in courage is strong in cunning. 49The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse how he shall take his prey. 50The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. 51If others had not been foolish we should have been so. 52The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled. 53When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius. Lift up thy head! 54As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. 55To create a little flower is the labour of ages. 56Damn braces; bless relaxes. 57The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. 58Prayers plough not; praises reap not; joys laugh not; sorrows weep not. 59The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands and feet Proportion. 60As the air to a bird, or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. 61The crow wished everything was black; the owl that everything was white. 62If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning. 63Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius. 64Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. 65Where man is not, nature is barren. 66Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not to be believed. 67The ancient poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the Genius of each city and country, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects. Thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast. ‹Previous chapterThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell 3Next chapterThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell 5›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain in the United States via Project Gutenberg