How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKELove 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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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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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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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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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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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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Exuberance is beauty.
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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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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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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