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


William Blake

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Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.

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Shame is pride's cloak.
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat ...
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The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Dee...
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His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, ...
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
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And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to ...
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Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
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The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots.
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There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and t...
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When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
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Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
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I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
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Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
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I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th...
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If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
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excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
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The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
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A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
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For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
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Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
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Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
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