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

William Blake

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
The eye altering, alters all.
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Change Eyes
Opposition is true Friendship.
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Friendship True
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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Rule Slave Yourself
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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Fiction Life Yourself
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Believe Possible Truth
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Animal Deep Wild Wisdom
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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Enjoyment Learning Teaching Time Winter
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Deep Enough Yourself
Energy is eternal delight.
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Enjoyment Forever
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Animal Black Thinking
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Doubt Moon Sun
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
I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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Business Creation Myself Reason
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.
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Myself Talk Truth
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Deep Philosophy
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.
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Care Heaven Hell Love
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius Improvement Road
Every harlot was a virgin once
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Beginning One Liner
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Act Eat Morning Night Thinking
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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Growth Himself Lion Tree
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Act Children Desire
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 now proved was once only imagined.
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Imagination Theory
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Animal Learning Lost Time
My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Danger Father Mom Myself World
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Body Eyes Forever Greatness Man Naked Woman

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