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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

William Blake

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born End Grief Happiness Night
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Law Prison Religion
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Greatness Man Nature
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Grief Joy
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
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.
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Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Fools Man See Wisdom
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
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Care Heaven Hell Love
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Theory
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Appearance Forever Philosophy
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Imagination Philosophy World
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forget Human Man
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Sadness Time
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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Love Seek Silence
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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Enemy Friendship Heart Pain
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

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