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" Every harlot was a virgin once. "
William Blake
Every
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" Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. "
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" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "
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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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" To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. "
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" He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. "
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" Eternity is in love with the productions of time. "
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" Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. "
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" A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. "
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" Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. "
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" Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. "
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" I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. "
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" The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. "
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" It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. "
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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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" Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. "
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" To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. "
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" Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. "
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" Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. "
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" The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. "
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" The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. "
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" When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. "
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" If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. "
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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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" I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. "
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" Lives in eternity's sun rise. "
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" I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! "
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" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "
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" You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. "
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" The true method of knowledge is experiment. "
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