Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
WILLIAM BLAKEDip him in the river who loves water.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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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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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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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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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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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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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.
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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