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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

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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Growth Himself Lion Tree
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Grief Joy
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Bad Invention Lie Truth Yourself
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Law Prison Religion
Energy is eternal delight.
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Enjoyment Forever
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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Goodness Religion Talk
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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Genius Gratitude Honesty Present
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Gratitude Thankful
I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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Business Creation Myself Reason
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Connection People
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Animal Black Thinking
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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Myself Talk Truth
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius Improvement Road

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