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William Blake
English
Poet
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Fool
#Folly
The eye altering, alters all.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Eye
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,
English
Poet
#Man
#Imagination
#Eyes
#Nature
#Joy
#Tears
#Ridicule
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Horses
#Wrath
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Harvest
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Soul
#Delight
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Road
#Wisdom
#Excess
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Man
#Mind
#Artist
#Thoughts
#Heaven
#Travel
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Man
#Mind
#Opinions
#Water
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Wisdom
#Folly
#Measure
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Christianity
#Glory
#Forgiveness
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Nations
#Race
#Music
#Poetry
#Painting
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Will
#Fool
#Folly
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,
English
Poet
#Difference
#Artist
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Man
#Friendship
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.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Right
#God
#Will
#Benefits
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Old
#Ugly
#Prudence
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Law
#Religion
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Knowledge
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Men
#Worth
#Care
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Art
#Science
#Vice
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,
English
Poet
#Wife
#Reason
#Religion
#Politics
#Church
#Cruelty
#Theatre
#Brotherhood
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake,
English
Poet
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,
English
Poet
#World
#Liberty
#Virtue
#Race
#Hate
#Slavery
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Love
#Reason
#Hate
#Energy
#Existence
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Love
#God
#Pity
#Mercy
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Truth
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Enemy
#Friend
#Trying
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.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Dance
#Wife
#Children
#Man
#Men
#Experience
#Song
#Wisdom
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.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Want
#People
#Money
#Cause
#Passion
#Miser
#Thieving
Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Opposition
#Friendship
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Courage
#Cunning
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Sorrow
#Grief
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Dream
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,
English
Poet
#Money
#Eyes
#Sun
#Miser
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,
English
Poet
#World
#Eternity
#Heaven
#Infinity
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,
English
Poet
#World
#Eternity
#Heaven
#Infinity
To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake,
English
Poet
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake,
English
Poet
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Act
#Night
#Sleep
#Evening
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Now
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Bible
#Day
#Night
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Mountains
#Men
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Love
#Fun
#Happiness
#Mirth
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Life
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Beauty
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Sorrow
#Joy
Every harlot was a virgin once.
William Blake,
English
Poet
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Time
#Love
#Eternity
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.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Life
#Sun
#Eternity
#Joy
#Flies
#Kisses
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Christ
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Desire
#Murder
One thought fills immensity.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Thought
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Eye
#Man
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Will
#World
#Fiction
#Contradiction
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Art
#Beauty
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Will
#Man
#Mind
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Evil
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Truth
#Lies
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Man
#Fool
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Energy
#Delight
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Doubt
#Sun
#Moon
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Life
#Art
#Death
#Science
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake,
English
Poet
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Man
#Age
#Soul
#Body
#Senses
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.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Love
#Hell
#Care
#Despair
#Heaven
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Sun
#Eternity
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,
English
Poet
#God
#Men
#Angels
#Holiness
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Enemy
#Friend
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Time
#Winter
#Harvest
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake,
English
Poet
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#World
#Imagination
#Universe
#Shadow
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Man
#Infinite
#Perception
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Infinite
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#End
#Wrath
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Will
#Reason
#Business
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Old
#Name
#Joy
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Love
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake,
English
Poet
#Light
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,
English
Poet
#Art
#Science