William Blake

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1.To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

2.If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

3.You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

4.No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

5.Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

6.I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

7.Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

8.He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

9.To generalize is to be an idiot.

10. 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.

11. A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

12. What is now proved was once only imagined.

13. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

14. He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

15. Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

16. Opposition is true friendship.

17. If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

18. Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

19. Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

20. In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

21.Energy is eternal delight.

22. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

23. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

24.The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

25. The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

26. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

27. For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

28. Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

29.If a thing loves, it is infinite.

30. As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

31.Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

32. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

33. Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

34. Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, And not seek for kind relief?

35.The true method of knowledge is experiment.

36. It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone.

37. Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

38. The moon like a flower In heaven’s high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night.

39. The eye altering, alters all.

40. Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

41. 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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