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Every harlot was a virgin once

William Blake

The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Forever Forgiveness Myself
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Deep Enough Yourself
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
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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Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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Rule Slave Yourself
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Growth Nation Old Tree
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Appearance Forever Philosophy
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Connection People
Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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Imagination Philosophy Truth
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Grief Joy
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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Angel Angry Fantasy Fire Rise

Every harlot was a virgin once

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