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"The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates, Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates."
"to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief."
"Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way."
"Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense."
"The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it."
"I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself."
"You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die."
"How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds."
"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."
"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply."
"The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death."
"Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King."
"Hate pollutes the mind."
"If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground"
"Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now."
"The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75"
"I hate the murderer, love him murdered."
"Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty."
"Every offense is not a hate at first."
"By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love"
