How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKEA man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
More William Blake Quotes
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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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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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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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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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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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