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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

William Blake

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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Born Man Mindset Opinion
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Eyes Himself Man Power See
Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Rule Slave Yourself
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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Genius Gratitude Honesty Present
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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Avoid Man Mindset Yourself
Without Contraries is no Progression.
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Philosophy Progress
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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Growth Himself Lion Tree
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Control Enough Passionate Weakness
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Animal Black Thinking
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Time
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Existence Human Imagination
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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Break Joy Love Mindset Prison Wings
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKE

Law Prison Religion
For every thing that lives is Holy.
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Live Religious

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