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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

William Blake

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Doubt Moon Sun
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Life Responsibility
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
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
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Gratitude Thankful
Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enjoyment Forever
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
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Rule Slave Yourself
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fools Wisdom
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Freedom Joy Prison Sing
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Grief Joy
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Fiction Life Yourself
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Desire Enough Weakness
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Born Desire Himself

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