Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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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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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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We become what we behold.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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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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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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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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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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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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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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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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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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