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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

William Blake

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
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Avoid Man Mindset Yourself
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Learning Lost Time
Without Contraries is no Progression.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Philosophy Progress
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Fiction Life Yourself
A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Independent Man Wings
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Black Desire Joy Walk
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Courage Deep Strong Weakness
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
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
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
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Greatness Man Nature
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Truth Understand
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom

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