The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
WILLIAM BLAKEAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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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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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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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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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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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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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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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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