How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKEYou never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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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 we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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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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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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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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My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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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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