We become what we behold.
WILLIAM BLAKEAnd we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
More William Blake Quotes
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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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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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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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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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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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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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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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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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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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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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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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Exuberance is beauty.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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