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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

William Blake

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Capacity Rich Ugly
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 thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Gratitude Thankful
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Black Desire Joy Walk
Expect poison from the standing water.
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Expectation Poison
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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Law Prison Religion
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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Alone Stupidity
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Himself Light Stars
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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Angel Angry Fantasy Fire Rise
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
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
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Advice Struggle
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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Fiction Life Yourself
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Love Time
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Deep Wild Wisdom

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