The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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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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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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We become what we behold.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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