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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

William Blake

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
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Appearance Forever Philosophy
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Learning Lost Time
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
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
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
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Connection People
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Capacity Rich Ugly
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Friendship Man
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
We become what we behold.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Be Yourself Growth
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
The eye altering, alters all.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Change Eyes
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Man Mindset Opinion
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forgiveness Glory Religion

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

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