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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.
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I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.
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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
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Time is the Mercy of Eternity.
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What has reasoning to do with painting?
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And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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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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Knowledge is Life with wings.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.