The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKEWithout contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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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 thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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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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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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