Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
WILLIAM BLAKEIf the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
More William Blake Quotes
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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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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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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Without Contraries is no Progression.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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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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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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