The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKETruth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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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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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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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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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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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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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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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 apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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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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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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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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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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