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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Gratitude Honesty Present
I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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Business Creation Myself Reason
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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Endurance Learning Love
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Imagination Philosophy World
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Deep Philosophy
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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Rule Slave Yourself
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Leadership Road Wisdom
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.
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Myself Talk Truth
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Connection People
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Animal Death Forgiveness
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Danger Father Mom Myself World
Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom
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
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Eyes Himself Man Power See

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