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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

William Blake

Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
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
Without Contraries is no Progression.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Philosophy Progress
A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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Himself Independent Man Wings
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Gratitude Thankful
Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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Angel Angry Fantasy Fire Rise
To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Stupidity
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Philosophy
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
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Doubt Moon Sun
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Animal Learning Lost Time
The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
Knowledge is Life with wings
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Knowledge Life Wings
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Theory
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Accomplishment Myself Spirit

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