Quotes on history

“The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.”

Topics: blake, cistern, contains

“And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me.”

Topics: blake, eternity, forgive

“Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrows too? Can I see another’s grief, And not seek for kind relief?”

Topics: another, grief, history

“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.”

Topics: hath, history, itself

“I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow.”

Topics: angry, friends, history

“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise.”

Topics: binds, destroy, himself

“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”

Topics: become, folly, foolish

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

Topics: enough, history, knows

“Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin’d, Lawless, wing’d, and unconfin’d, And breaks all chains from every mind.”

Topics: always, blind, faults

“If you trap the moment before it’s ripe, The tears of repentance you’ll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.”

Topics: before, history, moment

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