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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Rule Slave Yourself
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Enough Yourself
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
To generalize is to be an idiot.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Stupidity
Without Contraries is no Progression.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Philosophy Progress
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
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
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Goodness Religion Talk
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Eat Morning Night Thinking
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Truth Understand
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Fiction Life Yourself
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Children Desire
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Destruction Eyes Forever Greatness Man Sea Storm

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