We become what we behold.
WILLIAM BLAKELove 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.
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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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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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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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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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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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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