Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKEMercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless 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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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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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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The eye altering, alters all.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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