Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKEGreat things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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