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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Imagination Theory
Every harlot was a virgin once
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Beginning One Liner
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Forever Love
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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Born Learning Love Nature Space
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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Growth Himself Lion Tree
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Growth Nation Old Tree
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Animal Black Thinking
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Act Eat Morning Night Thinking
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Act Born Desire Himself
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Control Enough Passionate Weakness
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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Care Heaven Hell Love
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Act Children Desire
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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Love Seek Silence
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Bad Invention Lie Truth Yourself
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Death Forgiveness

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