Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKEI must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
More William Blake Quotes
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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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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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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