The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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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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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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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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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
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