How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKEEverything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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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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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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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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We become what we behold.
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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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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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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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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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