Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
More William Blake Quotes
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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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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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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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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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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We become what we behold.
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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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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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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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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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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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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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