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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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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

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The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

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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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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

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Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

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

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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

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There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

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

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If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

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God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

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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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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

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General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

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God is the poetic genius in each of us.

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The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates, Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.

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If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

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