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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.

William Blake

Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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Fiction Life Yourself
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Animal Learning Lost Time
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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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
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
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Grief Joy
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
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
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Existence Human Imagination
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Glory Religion
Energy is eternal delight.
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Enjoyment Forever
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Bad Invention Lie Truth Yourself
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Advice Struggle
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

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