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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

William Blake

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
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
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Black Desire Joy Walk
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Capacity Rich Ugly
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Love
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Alone Stupidity
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forget Human Man
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
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Eyes Himself Man Power See
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Learning Love Nature Space
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 moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Doubt Moon Sun

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

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