"Without contraries there is no progression." — William Blake

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• Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake
• As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
• All concord's born of contraries. — Ben Jonson
• Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is… — Eliphas Levi
• Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of… — Aleister Crowley
• Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that… — Giordano Bruno
• They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life… — Thomas Browne
• In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals… — Carl Jung
• The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries,… — Giordano Bruno
• Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. — Carl Jung
• By proving contraries, truth is made manifest. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
• Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not… — Louisa May Alcott

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