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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

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

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

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

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To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

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O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

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Art degraded, Imagination denied.

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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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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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Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

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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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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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