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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

William Blake

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
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
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
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
WILLIAM BLAKE

Growth Nation Old Tree
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Existence Human Imagination
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Light Stars
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
Opposition is true Friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Friendship True
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy World
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Improvement Road
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Grief Joy
My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Danger Father Mom Myself World
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fools Wisdom
Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enjoyment Forever
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Courage Deep Strong Weakness

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