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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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Opposition is true friendship.
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Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
William Blake
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake
One thought fills immensity.
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
William Blake
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
William Blake
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake
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.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
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.
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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