"Error is created; truth is eternal."
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"He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you."
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"Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists"
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"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."
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"Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight."
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"Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!"
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"There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True."
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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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"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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"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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"It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted."
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"Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy."
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"How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?"
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"Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age."
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"None but blockheads copy each other."
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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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"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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"Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!"
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"But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse"
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"A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others."
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