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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

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
We become what we behold.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Be Yourself Growth
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forget Human Man
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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Angel Enjoyment Fire Hell Myself Sanity Walk
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Enemy Friendship Person Yourself
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Growth Himself Lion Tree
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Love Time
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fiction Life Yourself
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
WILLIAM BLAKE

Growth Nation Old Tree
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Existence Human Imagination
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Leadership Road Wisdom
Opposition is true Friendship.
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Friendship True
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Learning Love Nature Space
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Man Mindset Opinion

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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