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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

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If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

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I see through my eyes, not with them.

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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

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'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

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Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

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Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

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I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

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Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

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I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

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Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

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Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.

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Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

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The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

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THE POISON TREE 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. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

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