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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.

William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Courage Deep Strong Weakness
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.
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Care Heaven Hell Love
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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Act Yourself
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Animal Black Thinking
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Growth Nation Old Tree
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Life Responsibility
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Fools Wisdom
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.
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Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Desire Enough Weakness
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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Care Man Myself Necessary Weakness Worth
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Business Creation Man Myself Reason
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Sadness Time
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Forget Human Man
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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Angel Enjoyment Fire Hell Myself Sanity Walk
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Body Eyes Forever Greatness Man Naked Woman

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