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“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
William Blake
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
William Blake
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
William Blake
“Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.”
William Blake
“You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.”
William Blake
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
William Blake
“As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”
William Blake
“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
William Blake
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
William Blake
“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
William Blake
“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.”
William Blake
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
William Blake
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
William Blake
“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”
William Blake
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
William Blake
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
William Blake
“Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.”
William Blake
“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.”
William Blake
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
William Blake
“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
William Blake
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
William Blake
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
William Blake
“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
William Blake
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
William Blake
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
William Blake
“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.”
William Blake
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
William Blake
“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
William Blake
“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”
William Blake
