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

William Blake

The eye altering, alters all.
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Change Eyes
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
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Existence Human Imagination
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Born Desire Himself
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 weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Freedom Joy Prison Sing
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Black Desire Joy Walk
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sadness Time
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act 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 lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Death Forgiveness
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Love Time
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
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Accomplishment Myself Spirit

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

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