“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend”
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“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend”
“Active evil is better than passive good”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps”
“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite”
“Never seek to tell thy love, love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly. ”
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning”
“He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter”
“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind”
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness”
“The busy bee has no time for sorrow”
“The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.”
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius”
“Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and its last.”
“Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”