How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKEThose who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
More William Blake Quotes
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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