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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

William Blake

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

Deep Enemy Friendship Person Yourself
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Advice Struggle
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
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
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Truth Understand
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Children Desire
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 imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Existence Human Imagination
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Angel Enjoyment Fire Hell Myself Sanity Walk
My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Danger Father Mom Myself World
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born End Grief Happiness Night
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Alone Stupidity
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Business Creation Myself Reason
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Light Stars

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