William Blake
Quotations
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“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” -William Blake
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“The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.” -William Blake
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“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” -William Blake
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“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
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“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.” -William Blake
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“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” -William Blake
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“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” -William Blake
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“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.” -William Blake
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“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
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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?” -William Blake
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“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.” -William Blake
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“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
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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.” -William Blake
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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
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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.” -William Blake
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“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” -William Blake
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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
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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
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“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
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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.” -William Blake
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“The true method of knowledge is experiment.” -William Blake
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“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
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“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
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“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.” -William Blake
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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
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“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.” -William Blake
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“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
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“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” -William Blake
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“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.” -William Blake
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“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” -William Blake
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“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
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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
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