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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

William Blake

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
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enemy Friendship Heart Pain
Opposition is true Friendship.
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Friendship True
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Control Enough Passionate Weakness
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Enough Yourself
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Possible Truth
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Forgiveness Myself
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Philosophy
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Act Children Desire
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Advice Struggle
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Greatness Man Nature
Without Contraries is no Progression.
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Philosophy Progress
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy World
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
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
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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Endurance Learning Love
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
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Seek Silence
The eye altering, alters all.
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Change Eyes
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Truth Understand
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Existence Human Imagination
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius Improvement Road
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Eat Morning Night Thinking
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
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
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Eyes Himself Man Power See

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

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