Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKEWithout contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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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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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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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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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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