Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
WILLIAM BLAKEWhat is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
More William Blake Quotes
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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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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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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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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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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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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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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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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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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