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And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

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

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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

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The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

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I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

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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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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

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I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

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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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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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The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

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