And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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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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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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