Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
WILLIAM BLAKEWhen 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.
More William Blake Quotes
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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We become what we behold.
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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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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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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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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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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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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