Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
WILLIAM BLAKEYou never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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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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Exuberance is beauty.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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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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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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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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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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We become what we behold.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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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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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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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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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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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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