How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKEI 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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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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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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We become what we behold.
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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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