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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

William Blake

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

Born Man Mindset Opinion
Knowledge is Life with wings
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Knowledge Life 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
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Greatness Man Nature
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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Genius Gratitude Honesty Present
To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Stupidity
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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Believe Truth Understand
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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Enemy Friendship Heart Pain
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
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Theory
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
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Deep Enough Yourself
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
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
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fools Man See Wisdom
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Eat Morning Night Thinking

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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