My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
WILLIAM BLAKEPrudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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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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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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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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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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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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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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