A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
WILLIAM BLAKEAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
More William Blake Quotes
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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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The eye altering, alters all.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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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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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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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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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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