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William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Stupidity
Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Love River Water
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Love
Knowledge is Life with wings
WILLIAM BLAKE

Knowledge Life Wings
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Enough Yourself
Expect poison from the standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Expectation Poison
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
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Gratitude Thankful
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
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
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Death Forgiveness
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
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Time
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.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Care Heaven Hell Love
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Alone Stupidity
Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy Truth
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enjoyment Learning Teaching Time Winter
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Doubt Moon Sun
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Body Eyes Forever Greatness Man Naked Woman
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKE

Law Prison Religion
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Rule Slave Yourself
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Light Stars
For every thing that lives is Holy.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Fiction Life Yourself

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