To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit — General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess. - William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

It is right it should be so:
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.

The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.