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“Opposition is true friendship.”
William Blake
“Exuberance is beauty.”
William Blake
“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
William Blake
“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.”
William Blake
“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
William Blake
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
William Blake
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
William Blake
“Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.”
William Blake
“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
William Blake
“That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.”
William Blake
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
William Blake
“Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
William Blake
“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”
William Blake
“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
William Blake
“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
William Blake
“Every harlot was a virgin once.”
William Blake
“One thought fills immensity.”
William Blake
“Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.”
William Blake
“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
William Blake
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
William Blake
“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”
William Blake
“Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
William Blake
“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
William Blake
“Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.”
William Blake
“The eye altering, alters all.”
William Blake
“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
William Blake
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
William Blake
“The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.”
William Blake
“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”
William Blake
“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”
William Blake
