Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
WILLIAM BLAKEMy mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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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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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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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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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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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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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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