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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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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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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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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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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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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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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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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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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