Quote by William Blake
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternitys sun rise. – William Blake

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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. – William Blake

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Oppression
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. – William Blake

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Business
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. – William Blake

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Trees
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What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. – Ralph Marston

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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. – R.D. Laing

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Where there is love there is life. – Mahatma Gandhi

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The quality, not the longevity, of ones life is what is important. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. – English Proverb

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This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me. – Rodney Dangerfield

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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. – Lorraine Anderson

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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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