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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

William Blake

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Black Desire Joy 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
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Independent Man Wings
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
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forget Human Man
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
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Born Desire Himself
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Freedom Joy Prison Sing
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Truth Understand
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sadness Time
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Gratitude Thankful
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy World
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKE

Law Prison Religion
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Time
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Courage Deep Strong Weakness

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

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