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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion

William Blake

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Children Desire
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fools Man See Wisdom
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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Enjoyment Learning Teaching Time Winter
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
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Death Forgiveness
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Desire Enough Weakness
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
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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Deep Enemy Friendship Person Yourself
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fiction Life Yourself
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
The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
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
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Grief Joy
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forgiveness Glory Religion
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

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