Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKEAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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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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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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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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