"If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do."
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"The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy."
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"Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans."
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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 relief?"
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"Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh."
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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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"Expect poison from the standing water."
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"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."
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"Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity."
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"The fox condemns the trap, not himself."
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"Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory."
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"The eye altering, alters all."
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"When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree"
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"Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles."
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"I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand."
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"Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
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"Gratitude, in itself, is heaven."
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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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"The true method of knowledge is experiment."
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"As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys."
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