A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
--William Blake
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
--William Blake
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
--William Blake
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
--William Blake
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
--William Blake
Empires flourish till they become commercial and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
--William Blake
Every harlot was a virgin once.
--William Blake
Every thing that lives
Lives not alone nor for itself.
--William Blake
Excess of sorrow laughs.Excess of joy weeps.
--William Blake
First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the Head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
--William Blake
Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.
--William Blake
Gratitude is heaven itself.
--William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
--William Blake
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
--William Blake
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
--William Blake
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
--William Blake
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
--William Blake
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
--William Blake
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
--William Blake
No bird soars too high who soars with his own wings.
--William Blake
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose public records to be true.
--William Blake
O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast given me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
--William Blake
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.
--William Blake
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
--William Blake
Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to endless night.
--William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
--William Blake
The Goddess Fortune is the devils servant ready to Kiss any ones Arse.
--William Blake
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
--William Blake
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
--William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
--William Blake
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
--William Blake
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
--William Blake
To generalize is to be an Idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit- general knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
--William Blake
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
--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
When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who do.
--William Blake
When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold,
And Commerce settles on every tree.
--William Blake
Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.
--William Blake
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
--William Blake
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