And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
WILLIAM BLAKEEternity is in love with the productions of time.
More William Blake Quotes
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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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.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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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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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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