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Opposition is true friendship.

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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

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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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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

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Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.

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My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

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There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

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First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

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Execution is the chariot of genius.

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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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The eye sees more than the heart knows.

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The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

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I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

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Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

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Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

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