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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

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

Born Freedom Joy Prison Sing
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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Endurance Learning Love
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Time
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.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
For every thing that lives is Holy.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Live Religious
Knowledge is Life with wings
WILLIAM BLAKE

Knowledge Life Wings
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Courage Deep Strong Weakness
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
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Improvement Road
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Growth Himself Lion Tree
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Philosophy
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
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forget Human Man

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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