Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKETruth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
More William Blake Quotes
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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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 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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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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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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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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