The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
WILLIAM BLAKESooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
More William Blake Quotes
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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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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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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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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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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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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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