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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

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

Born End Grief Happiness Night
I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Business Creation Myself Reason
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
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Improvement Road
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born Freedom Joy Prison Sing
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
Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enjoyment Forever
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Existence Human Imagination
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy World
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
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Light Stars
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Myself Talk Truth
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Theory
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sadness Time
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enjoyment Learning Teaching Time Winter
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Eat Morning Night Thinking

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