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

William Blake

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Existence Human Imagination
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
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Avoid Man Mindset Yourself
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
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Care Heaven Hell Love
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Greatness Man Nature
Dip him in the river who loves water.
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Himself Love River Water
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Time
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Philosophy
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sadness Time
My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Danger Father Mom Myself World
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Enemy Friendship Person Yourself
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Animal Learning Lost Time
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Fools Wisdom
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Friendship Man
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Rule Slave Yourself
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
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
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Death Forgiveness
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Possible Truth
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Man Mindset Opinion
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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Growth Himself Lion Tree
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
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
We become what we behold.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Be Yourself Growth
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Himself Light Stars

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