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21 " Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. "
― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color
22 " Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. "
23 " The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. "
24 " Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion "
25 " The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. "
26 " Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. "
27 " Shame is Prides cloke. "
28 " A dead body revenges not injuries. "
29 " Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also. "
30 " La Eternidad está enamorada de las obras del tiempo. "
31 " The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure. "
32 " El mejor vino es el más viejo, la mejor agua es la más nueva. "
33 " All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics. "
34 " The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled. "
35 " If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. "
36 " As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. "
37 " The fox condemns the trap, not himself. "
38 " As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. "
39 " Folly is the cloak of knavery. "
40 " The selfish, smiling fool, and the sullen, frowning fool shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod. "