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Every harlot was a virgin once

William Blake

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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Rule Slave Yourself
Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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Imagination Philosophy Truth
I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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Business Creation Myself Reason
A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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Himself Independent Man Wings
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Business Creation Man Myself Reason
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
Expect poison from the standing water.
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Expectation Poison
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Doubt Moon Sun
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Danger Father Mom Myself World
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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Animal Friendship Man
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Law Prison Religion
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
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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Alone Stupidity
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
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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Act Yourself
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Himself Light Stars
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
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
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Born End Grief Happiness Night
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Deep Philosophy
Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius Improvement Road
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

Every harlot was a virgin once

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