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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

William Blake

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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Accomplishment Myself Spirit
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Law Prison Religion
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Himself Light Stars
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Advice Struggle
The eye altering, alters all.
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Change Eyes
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Deep Philosophy
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius Improvement Road
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Control Enough Passionate Weakness
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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Rule Slave Yourself
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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Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Glory Religion
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
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

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

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