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

William Blake

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Animal Black Thinking
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Animal Death Forgiveness
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Black Desire Joy Walk
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Law Prison Religion
A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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Himself Independent Man Wings
For every thing that lives is Holy.
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Live Religious
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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Born Learning Love Nature Space
Opposition is true Friendship.
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Friendship True
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 bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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Animal Friendship Man
Expect poison from the standing water.
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Expectation Poison
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Eyes Himself Man Power See
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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Destruction Eyes Forever Greatness Man Sea Storm
To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Stupidity
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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Love Seek Silence
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Grief Joy

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

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