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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

William Blake

To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Alone Stupidity
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Control Enough Passionate Weakness
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
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Black Thinking
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Gratitude Thankful
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Time
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Learning Love Nature Space
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.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Art Existence Goodness Himself Science
The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Deep Wild Wisdom
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Appearance Forever Philosophy
Expect poison from the standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Expectation Poison
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sadness Time
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Improvement Road
Without Contraries is no Progression.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Philosophy Progress
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Children Desire

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