I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
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When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.William Blake
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,But O, he lives in the moony lightI thought to find Love in the heat of day,But sweet Love is the comforter of night.
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Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, The children walking two and two, in red and blue and green.
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The arts of peace are great,And no less glorious than those of war.
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When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see Did he who made the Lamb make thee
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