And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKEMy mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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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 become what we behold.
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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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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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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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Energy is eternal delight.
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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