All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.


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Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
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OMAR KHAYYáM
That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
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Is this some city? You go looking for Vermeer and you find William Blake.
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My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
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A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
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She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt th...
KATHY ACKER
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
OSCAR WILDE
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement
OSCAR WILDE
Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
BRIAN TRACY
The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England'...
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Big run by Blake Powers. That was huge.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have...
CARSON MCCULLERS
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA
Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN
God was developing her and training her to have the compassion that we all saw.
JJ DANIEL
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER
It was just so surreal, all of the things that we saw and that we experienced,
WARRICK DUNN
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
GABRIEL MARCEL
His thrust, however, was somewhat feeble, owing to the inflammation in his hand,
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BOB HORN
Dark alley, near midnight, silent door, loud knock, moment of silence, footsteps groping down stairs...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN
An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI
Hello, beautiful Livia," Blake answered.

"How did you know it was me?" Livia saw her wid...
DEBRA ANASTASIA
Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY
The fact that Robert Blake wants a do-over doesn't mean that he's entitled to one. The fact that Mr....
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The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
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The penalty for repeatedly failing to file is 10 per cent of your tax balance owing, plus two per ce...
JAMES RHODES
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STEVE SPURRIER
We have to leave the villa discreetly,” Blake said. “We need a smokescreen.
KHALED TALIB
There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries f...
MENCIUS
We expected Mr. Blake to conduct himself in a professional manner.
DAVID LOPEZ
And Mr. Welch also told you that Mr. Blake was going to let his daughter Delinah keep the child?
SHELLIE SAMUELS
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only...
SIVANANDA SARASWATI
Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?
MEG CABOT
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the ...
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Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
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William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William ha...
PRINCESS DIANA
'Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air,
I heard a maid making her moan;
Said, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Metaphysics is a science.
GABRIEL MARCEL
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
We all saw how important Tiger was for the game on Friday,
THOMAS BJORN
These questions used to be just the subjects of philosophy or metaphysics. Now that we can try with ...
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I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
By morning we saw the water rising. That was when we saw the nursing home across the street was stil...
BEVERLY MARINO
Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values. He was the lead singer ...
DENNIS POTTER
Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values, ... He was the lead sin...
DENNIS POTTER
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also...
WILHELM DILTHEY
That was really something for Blake to come back and beat a kid he lost to earlier. That's good for ...
GUY BRICKELL
Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more tow...
CHARLES DARWIN
It was lucky. I did it once before against James? (Blake?s) brother Thomas, but that was a long time...
MARDY FISH
The market was short of upward momentum owing to a dearth of strong fund inflows from overseas inves...
HIROICHI NISHI
We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE
Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he...
MIKE VEECK
Blake wasn't really merely my student. He was a comrade and friend.
DENNIS POTTER
I definitely saw (Harper) turn up the sideline. When I saw him, that's when I let it go a couple of ...
IKE WHITAKER
But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was no...
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Being really close to Blake, I felt a great deal of loss. I was really confused about why and stuff ...
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A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if a...
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I've decided that I'm going to collect as many spiders in a jar as I can and then pour them all over...
SHARON BIGGS WALLER
Losing Daniel and Blake was tough because you're losing friends and leaders. But we know what we're ...
ANDREW SHANLE
We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave....
ABU ABBAS
Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mat...
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On a gay situation, I think we set a trend too. I remember how Blake Carrington in Dynasty hated his...
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You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your ...
MAX LEVCHIN
We started finding out a little bit about Blake Field's nerves.
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I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's prob...
JANIS IAN
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
JOHN RAY
We've got to get Blake going,
STEVE SPURRIER
The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture...
JOHNNY WEISSMULLER
We saw one piece fly off and then it all just went. Debris was going everywhere. I had never been th...
DODIE DAVIDSON
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
JOE LOUIS
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
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We were very freaked, and called search and rescue to be picked up. There was no thought of dedicati...
GEORGE DIVOKY
Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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One thought fills immensity.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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If you have form'd a circle to go into,
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The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Dee...
WILLIAM BLAKE
His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
WILLIAM BLAKE
And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots.
WILLIAM BLAKE
There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and t...
WILLIAM BLAKE
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
WILLIAM BLAKE
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
WILLIAM BLAKE
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
WILLIAM BLAKE
I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew.
WILLIAM BLAKE
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
WILLIAM BLAKE
I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th...
WILLIAM BLAKE
If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE
excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE
The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE
A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE
Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE
For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
WILLIAM BLAKE