The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
WILLIAM BLAKEThe naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
More William Blake Quotes
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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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 crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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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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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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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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