And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
WILLIAM BLAKEAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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We become what we behold.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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