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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

William Blake

Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Animal Black Thinking
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Light Stars
The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
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
Without Contraries is no Progression.
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Philosophy Progress
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Man Mindset Opinion
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Love Time
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Born End Grief Happiness Night
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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Endurance Learning Love
Knowledge is Life with wings
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Knowledge Life Wings
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Angel Enjoyment Fire Hell Myself Sanity Walk
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Accomplishment Myself Spirit
Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Angel Angry Fantasy Fire Rise
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Seek Silence

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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