A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
WILLIAM BLAKEHe 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.
More William Blake Quotes
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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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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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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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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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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The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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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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