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

William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Stupidity
Energy is eternal delight.
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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.
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Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom
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.
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Myself Talk Truth
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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Love Seek Silence
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Himself Light Stars
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Advice Struggle
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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Avoid Man Mindset Yourself
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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Born Learning Love Nature Space
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Animal Black Thinking
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Existence Human Imagination
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Eyes Himself Man Power See
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Act Children Desire
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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Break Joy Love Mindset Prison Wings
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Deep Philosophy
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
The eye altering, alters all.
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Change Eyes
Knowledge is Life with wings
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Knowledge Life Wings
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Fools Man See Wisdom
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Control Enough Passionate Weakness
Every harlot was a virgin once
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Beginning One Liner
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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Destruction Eyes Forever Greatness Man Sea Storm
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Act Eat Morning Night Thinking
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Grief Joy

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

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