He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
WILLIAM BLAKEPrisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
More William Blake Quotes
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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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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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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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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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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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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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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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