The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKEDip him in the river who loves water.
More William Blake Quotes
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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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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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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