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

William Blake

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Deep Wild Wisdom
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
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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Fiction Life Yourself
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Body Eyes Forever Greatness Man Naked Woman
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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Born Learning Love Nature Space
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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Accomplishment Myself Spirit
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Appearance Forever Philosophy
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Sadness Time
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Control Enough Passionate Weakness
We become what we behold.
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Be Yourself Growth
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Imagination Philosophy World
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius Improvement Road
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Leadership Road Wisdom
The eye altering, alters all.
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Change Eyes
To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Stupidity
Exuberance is beauty.
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Beautiful One Liner
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Himself Light Stars
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
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Doubt Moon Sun
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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Endurance Learning Love
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Black Desire Joy Walk
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Alone Stupidity

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

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