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

William Blake

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Bad Invention Lie Truth Yourself
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Man Mindset Opinion
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Business Creation Man Myself Reason
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Control Enough Passionate Weakness
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Greatness Man Nature
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
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Animal Learning Lost Time
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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Fiction Life Yourself
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Gratitude Thankful
Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Truth Understand
We become what we behold.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Be Yourself Growth
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Rule Slave Yourself
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Possible Truth
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Theory
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Destruction Eyes Forever Greatness Man Sea Storm
Every harlot was a virgin once
WILLIAM BLAKE

Beginning One Liner
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy World
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
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.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Care Heaven Hell Love
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Doubt Moon Sun
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
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Grief Joy
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Born Desire Himself

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