The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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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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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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We become what we behold.
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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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