To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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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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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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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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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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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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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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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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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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