Every harlot was a virgin once
WILLIAM BLAKEHe 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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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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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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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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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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We become what we behold.
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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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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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