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You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-----Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
---william blake
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
----William Blake
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
----William Blake
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As tempted more; more able to endure,
As more exposed to suffering and distress;
Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.
----William Wordsworth
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
----William Wordsworth
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..........books are yours,
Within whose silent chambers treasure lies
Preserved from age to age; more precious far
Than that accumulated store of gold
And orient gems, which, for a day of need,
The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs.
These hoards of truth you can unlock at will:
---William Wordsworth
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In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.
----Philip Larkin
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Luck is the residue of design.
----John Milton
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
----William Shakespeare
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
---Philip Larkin
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O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
----Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-- - Robert Frost
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it."
-Emily Dickinson
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
----Pablo Neruda
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He didn't say it goes on forever. He meant that life doesn't stop for anyone.
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To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.
A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons
Shudders hell through all its regions.
----William Blake
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Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
– Sylvia Plath
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Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.
--from "Crossing the Water", written 1962
Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
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And still, after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
– Hafiz
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Freely we serve,
Because we freely love,as in our will
To love or not;in this we stand or fall.
----John Milton, Paradise Lost
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
----Lord Byron
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Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs
And vexes meditation with its strange
And extreme silentness.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The unquiet republic of the maze
Of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
----Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound
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