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Exuberance is beauty.

William Blake

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
For every thing that lives is Holy.
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Live Religious
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Act Children Desire
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
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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Myself Talk Truth
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
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Business Creation Man Myself Reason
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Greatness Man Nature
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Fools Wisdom
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Animal Learning Lost Time
My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Danger Father Mom Myself World
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Forever Forgiveness Myself
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
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Animal Deep Wild Wisdom
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Born End Grief Happiness Night
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Fools Man See Wisdom
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Gratitude Thankful
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Glory Religion
Love 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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Care Heaven Hell Love
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Advice Struggle
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Existence Human Imagination
Expect poison from the standing water.
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Expectation Poison
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius Improvement Road
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Animal Death Forgiveness

Exuberance is beauty.

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