Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKEThe eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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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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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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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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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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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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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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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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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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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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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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