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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

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKE

Law Prison Religion
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Imagination Theory
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Business Creation Man Myself Reason
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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Born Learning Love Nature Space
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Eyes Himself Man Power See
Opposition is true Friendship.
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Friendship True
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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Myself Talk Truth
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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Deep Enemy Friendship Person Yourself
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Glory Religion
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Animal Death Forgiveness
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.
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Care Heaven Hell Love
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Alone Stupidity

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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