If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKEHow can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
More William Blake Quotes
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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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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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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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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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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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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