Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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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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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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We become what we behold.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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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.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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