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

William Blake

Without Contraries is no Progression.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Philosophy Progress
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Myself Talk Truth
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Desire Enough Weakness
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Eyes Himself Man Power See
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Gratitude Honesty Present
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Capacity Rich Ugly
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Friendship Man
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKE

Law Prison Religion
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Time
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Growth Himself Lion Tree
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Life Responsibility
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
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever 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
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

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

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