Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKEThose who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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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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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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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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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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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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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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My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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