He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
More William Blake Quotes
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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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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Opposition is true Friendship.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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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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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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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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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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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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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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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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