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

William Blake

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Fools Wisdom
Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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Fiction Life Yourself
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Theory
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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Enjoyment Learning Teaching Time Winter
Expect poison from the standing water.
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Expectation Poison
Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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Angel Angry Fantasy Fire Rise
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Sadness Time
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Imagination Philosophy World
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Animal Death Forgiveness
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Gratitude Thankful
The eye altering, alters all.
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Change Eyes
Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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Hands Intellectual Mad Myself Wisdom
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Act Children Desire
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
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Black Desire Joy Walk
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Animal Learning Lost Time

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