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We become what we behold.

William Blake

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Believe Possible Truth
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Act Born Desire Himself
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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Care Heaven Hell Love
We become what we behold.
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Be Yourself Growth
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Born End Grief Happiness Night
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Connection People
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Greatness Man Nature
Knowledge is Life with wings
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Knowledge Life Wings
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Eyes Himself Man Power See
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Growth Nation Old Tree
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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Love Seek Silence
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Existence Human Imagination
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Deep Philosophy

We become what we behold.

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