Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKEWithout contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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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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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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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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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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