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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Love River Water
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Gratitude Thankful
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
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Black Desire Joy Walk
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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Angel Enjoyment Fire Hell Myself Sanity Walk
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Break Joy Love Mindset Prison Wings
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Theory
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fiction Life Yourself
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Light Stars
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
We become what we behold.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Be Yourself Growth
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Love
The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Learning Lost Time
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

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