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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

William Blake

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
Expect poison from the standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Enemy Friendship Heart Pain
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Leadership Road Wisdom
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKE

Law Prison Religion
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Capacity Rich Ugly
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Appearance Forever Philosophy
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
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
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Avoid Man Mindset Yourself
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Grief Joy
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
To generalize is to be an idiot.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Stupidity
Every harlot was a virgin once
WILLIAM BLAKE

Beginning One Liner
For every thing that lives is Holy.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Live Religious

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

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