Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
WILLIAM BLAKEAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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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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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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