As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKEMercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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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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Expect poison from the standing water.
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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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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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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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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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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