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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.

William Blake

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

Fools Man See Wisdom
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Grief Joy
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Courage Deep Strong Weakness
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Business Creation Man Myself Reason
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Rule Slave 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 imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Existence Human Imagination
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fiction Life Yourself
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
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
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
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
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Born Man Mindset Opinion
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth

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