And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
WILLIAM BLAKEWe become what we behold.
More William Blake Quotes
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We become what we behold.
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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 imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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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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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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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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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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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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