The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
WILLIAM BLAKEHow can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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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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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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