Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
WILLIAM BLAKEAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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We become what we behold.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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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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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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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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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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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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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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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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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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