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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Theory
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
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
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
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
For every thing that lives is Holy.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Live Religious
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Alone Stupidity
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fiction Life Yourself
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Improvement Road
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
Opposition is true Friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Myself Talk Truth
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Control Enough Passionate Weakness
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Accomplishment Myself Spirit

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