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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

William Blake

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Control Enough Passionate Weakness
What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Imagination Theory
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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Growth Himself Lion Tree
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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Animal Friendship Man
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Forever Love
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
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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Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
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.
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Care Heaven Hell Love
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Fools Man See Wisdom
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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Alone Stupidity
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Born Freedom Joy Prison Sing
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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Accomplishment Myself Spirit
To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Stupidity
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Fools Wisdom

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