The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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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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We become what we behold.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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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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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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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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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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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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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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