Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
WILLIAM BLAKEPrisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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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 lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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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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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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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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The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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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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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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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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