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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Forgiveness Myself
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Eat Morning Night Thinking
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.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Myself Talk Truth
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Endurance Learning Love
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enjoyment Learning Teaching Time Winter
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Bad Invention Lie Truth Yourself
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Improvement Road
Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy Truth
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Truth Understand
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Desire Enough Weakness
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forget Human Man
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
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
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Black Thinking
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.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Destruction Eyes Forever Greatness Man Sea Storm

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