William Blake
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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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.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“Knowledge is Life with wings”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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“Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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"We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them."
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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"Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's."
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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"Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away."
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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"Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost."
― William Blake (1757-1827)
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"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 (1757-1827)