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If a thing loves, it is infinite.

William Blake

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

Genius Improvement Road
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy World
The eye altering, alters all.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Change Eyes
Expect poison from the standing water.
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Expectation Poison
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
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
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
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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Goodness Religion Talk
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Body Eyes Forever Greatness Man Naked Woman
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Act Born Desire Himself
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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Genius Gratitude Honesty Present
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Time
For every thing that lives is Holy.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Live Religious
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Act Children Desire
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Himself Light Stars
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

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

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