And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKEThose who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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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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Knowledge is Life with wings
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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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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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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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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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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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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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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