Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

William Blake
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  1. If a thing loves, it is infinite.

  2. Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

  3. 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.

  4. What is now proved was once only imagined.

  5. A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

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