How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKEAlways be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
More William Blake Quotes
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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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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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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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Knowledge is Life with wings
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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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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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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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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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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Exuberance is beauty.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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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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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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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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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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