William Blake on children
“Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.”
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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 BlakeWilliam Blake How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
William BlakeWilliam Blake Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William BlakeWilliam Blake For every thing that lives is Holy.
William BlakeWilliam Blake You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William BlakeWilliam Blake What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William BlakeWilliam Blake Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
William BlakeWilliam Blake The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William BlakeWilliam Blake In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
William BlakeWilliam Blake When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
William BlakeWilliam Blake The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
William BlakeWilliam Blake A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
William BlakeWilliam Blake Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William BlakeWilliam Blake If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
William BlakeWilliam Blake I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
William BlakeWilliam Blake The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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