Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
More William Blake Quotes
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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We become what we behold.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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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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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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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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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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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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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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