Quote #110

Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.

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  1. Children of the future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.
  2. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright in the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
  3. In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.
  4. In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?
  5. I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
  6. When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make th…
  7. My mother groan'd! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud: Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
  8. What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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