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William Blake
I was angry with my friend;
My mother groaned! my father wept.
Ah, Sun-flower! weary of time,
Never pain to tell thy love
Piping down the valleys wild,
What is it men in women do require?
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Exuberance is beauty.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by Incapacity.
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Energy is Eternal Delight.
Can wisdom be put in a silver rod?
A robin red breast in a cage
John Berryman
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.
Robert Benchley
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Hilaire Belloc
There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light