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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

William Blake

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Death Forgiveness
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enemy Friendship Heart Pain
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Enough Philosophy Road Wisdom
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fools Wisdom
A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Independent Man Wings
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Bad Invention Lie Truth Yourself
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love Seek Silence
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE

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

Genius Improvement Road
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Existence Human Imagination
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Advice Struggle
To generalize is to be an idiot.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Stupidity
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Goodness Religion Talk
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
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Learning Lost Time
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Control Enough Passionate Weakness

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