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

William Blake

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress 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
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Love Time
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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Forever Himself Joy Kiss Sunrise
Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forget Human Man
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Love
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
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Rule Slave Yourself
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Deep Wild Wisdom
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Connection People
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Death Forgiveness
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Appearance Forever Philosophy
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Control Enough Passionate Weakness
Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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Imagination Philosophy Truth
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born End Grief Happiness Night
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Grief Joy

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

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