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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

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You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.

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I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

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The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

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Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

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Dip him in the river who loves water.

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Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

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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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Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

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But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

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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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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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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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