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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

William Blake

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Born End Grief Happiness Night
Knowledge is Life with wings
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Knowledge Life Wings
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Body Eyes Forever Greatness Man Naked Woman
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Forever Forgiveness Myself
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Act Born Desire Himself
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
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Freedom Joy Prison Sing
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
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sadness Time
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
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
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Animal Learning Lost Time
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Alone Stupidity

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