Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKENever seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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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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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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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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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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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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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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