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

William Blake

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Eyes Himself Man Power See
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
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
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Believe Possible Truth
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Animal Black Thinking
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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Act Yourself
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Bad Invention Lie Truth Yourself
For every thing that lives is Holy.
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Live Religious
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Advice Struggle
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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Accomplishment Myself Spirit
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
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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Born Man Mindset Opinion
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Imagination Philosophy World
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
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Growth Nation Old Tree
Without Contraries is no Progression.
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Philosophy Progress

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