And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKELove 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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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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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 moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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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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