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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
The eye altering, alters all.
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Change Eyes
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Act Children Desire
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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Destruction Eyes Forever Greatness Man Sea Storm
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Imagination Philosophy World
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Control Enough Passionate Weakness
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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Endurance Learning Love
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Animal Deep Wild Wisdom
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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Growth Himself Lion Tree
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Gratitude Thankful
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
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
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Believe Possible Truth
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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Care Heaven Hell Love

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