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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

— William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

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Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

Milton (1809)

Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell's despair.

Songs of Experience (1794)

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Eddington The Nature of the Physical World (1928)

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