Desire, William Blake

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793).

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Virtue, John Duke Coleridge

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

- John Duke Coleridge, Reg. v. Ramsey (1883), 1 Cababd and Ellis's Q. B. D. Rep. 145; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 244.

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Grass, Hal Borland

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

- Hal Borland, Countryman: A Summary of Belief.

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Attitudes, Thomas Szasz

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

- Thomas Szasz

Soul, Woody Allen

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.

- Woody Allen, Annie Hall (1977).

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