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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

William Blake

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Black Desire Joy Walk
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Animal Deep Wild Wisdom
Exuberance is beauty.
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Beautiful One Liner
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship
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
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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Alone Stupidity
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
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
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Believe Possible Truth
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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Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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Avoid Man Mindset Yourself
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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Growth Himself Lion Tree
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Greatness Man Nature
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Born Freedom Joy Prison Sing
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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Animal Friendship Man

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