Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKEMercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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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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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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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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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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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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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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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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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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