My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
WILLIAM BLAKEAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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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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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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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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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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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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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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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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