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

William Blake

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius Improvement Road
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Eyes Himself Man Power See
I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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Business Creation Myself Reason
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Born End Grief Happiness Night
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Believe Possible Truth
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Grief Joy
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
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Doubt Moon Sun
Every harlot was a virgin once
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Beginning One Liner
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Imagination Philosophy World
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
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
Dip him in the river who loves water.
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Himself Love River Water
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Sadness Time
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

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