Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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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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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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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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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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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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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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