A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe eye altering, alters all.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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We become what we behold.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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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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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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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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Knowledge is Life with wings
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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