The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
WILLIAM BLAKEA good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
More William Blake Quotes
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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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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We become what we behold.
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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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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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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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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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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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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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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