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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

William Blake

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
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Deep Wild Wisdom
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
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Angel Angry Fantasy Fire Rise
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forget Human Man
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Black Desire Joy Walk
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Light Stars
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Truth Understand
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship
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
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.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Care Heaven Hell Love
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 busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sadness Time

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