Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKEA man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
More William Blake Quotes
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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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Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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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.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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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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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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