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To generalize is to be an idiot.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

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I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

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Every harlot was a virgin once.

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The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

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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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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

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Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

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If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

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

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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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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

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Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

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