We become what we behold.
WILLIAM BLAKEWhen a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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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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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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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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Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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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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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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