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

William Blake

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Existence Human Imagination
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
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Eat Morning Night Thinking
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Sadness Time
For every thing that lives is Holy.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Live Religious
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Break Joy Love Mindset Prison Wings
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Advice Struggle
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Grief Joy
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Life Responsibility
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.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Myself Talk Truth
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Bad Invention Lie Truth Yourself
Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy Truth
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Business Creation Man Myself Reason
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Possible Truth

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

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