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If a thing loves, it is infinite.

William Blake

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Danger Father Mom Myself World
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Appearance Forever Philosophy
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Born Freedom Joy Prison Sing
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Eyes Himself Man Power See
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Act Born Desire Himself
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Advice Struggle
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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Break Joy Love Mindset Prison Wings
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Forever Forgiveness Myself
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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Enemy Friendship Heart Pain
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Body Eyes Forever Greatness Man Naked Woman
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
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Greatness Man Nature
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Animal Deep Wild Wisdom
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Glory Religion
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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Angel Enjoyment Fire Hell Myself Sanity Walk
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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Rule Slave Yourself
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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Act Yourself
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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Enjoyment Learning Teaching Time Winter
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
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Deep Philosophy

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