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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
#Art
#Degrade
#Foundation
#More
#Science
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
- William Blake
#Christ
#Excuse
#Executing
#Made
#Shall
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
#God
#Right
#Same
#Will
#Witness
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
#Hate
#Liberty
#Race
#Virtue
#World
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
#Bag
#Beautiful
#Eyes
#Money
#Sun
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
#Hardships
#Money
#Never
#Passion
#People
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
- William Blake
#Eternity
#Lives
#Rise
#Sun Rise
#Sun
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
#Human
#Music
#Painting
#Poetry
#Race
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 only.
- William Blake
#Because
#God
#Holiness
#Men
#Only
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
#Bad
#Copy
#Difference
#Good
#Great
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
#Better
#Fun
#Happiness
#Love
#Too Much
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
#Church
#Politics
#Pride
#Religion
#Wife
Every harlot was a virgin once.
- William Blake
#Every
#Harlot
#Once
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
- William Blake
#Eternity
#Love
#Productions
#Time
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
- William Blake
#Heaven
#Man
#Mind
#Never
#Thoughts
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
- William Blake
#Delight
#Never
#Soul
#Sweet
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
- William Blake
#Face
#He
#Light
#Never
#Star
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
- William Blake
#Infinite
#Loves
#Thing
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
- William Blake
#Dwell
#God
#Love
#Mercy
#Pity
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
#Experience
#Man
#Men
#Wife
#Wisdom
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
#Age
#Body
#Man
#Senses
#Soul
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
- William Blake
#Eye
#He
#Man
#Powers
#Sees
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
- William Blake
#Among
#Dream
#Leaves
#Repose
#Travel
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
#Angry
#End
#Friend
#Grow
#Wrath
One thought fills immensity.
- William Blake
#Fills
#Immensity
#Intelligence
#Thought
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
- William Blake
#Active
#Better
#Evil
#Good
#Than
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
- William Blake
#Conquer
#Forgiveness
#Glory
#Religion
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
- William Blake
#Contradiction
#Fiction
#Up
#Will
#World
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
- William Blake
#Imagination
#Shadow
#Universe
#World
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
- William Blake
#Care
#Despair
#Heaven
#Hell
#Love
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
#Care
#Idiot
#Men
#Obscure
#Worth
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
- William Blake
#Bricks
#Built
#Law
#Prisons
#Religion
#Stones
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
- William Blake
#Excessive
#Joy
#Laughs
#Sorrow
#Sympathy
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
#Grief
#I See
#Sad
#See
#Sorrow
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
- William Blake
#Man
#Mind
#Ready
#Speak
#Will
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
- William Blake
#Horses
#Instruction
#Than
#Wiser
#Wrath
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
- William Blake
#Enjoy
#Harvest
#Teach
#Time
#Winter
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
- William Blake
#Because
#Enough
#Those
#Weak
#Who
Opposition is true friendship.
- William Blake
#Friendship
#True Friendship
#True
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
- William Blake
#Happy
#I Am
#Joy
#Name
#Sweet
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
- William Blake
#Blind
#Chains
#Joy
#Love
#Mind
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
- William Blake
#Bible
#Black
#Day
#Night
#White
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
#Know
#Sake
#Tell
#Truth
#Who
To generalize is to be an idiot.
- William Blake
#Generalize
#Idiot
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
- William Blake
#Courage
#Cunning
#Strong
#Weak
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
- William Blake
#Art
#Death
#Life
#Science
#Tree
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
- William Blake
#Enemy
#Friend
#Person
#Start
#Trying
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
- William Blake
#Excess
#Leads
#Palace
#Road
#Wisdom
The eye altering, alters all.
- William Blake
#Altering
#Eye
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake
#Fool
#Man
#Tree
#Wise Man
#Wise
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
- William Blake
#Clock
#Folly
#Hours
#Measure
#Wisdom
Exuberance is beauty.
- William Blake
#Beauty
#Exuberance
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
- William Blake
#Maid
#Old
#Prudence
#Rich
#Ugly
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
- William Blake
#Delight
#Energy
#Eternal
#He
#Who
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake
#Man
#Mind
#Never
#Opinions
#Water
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake
#Easier
#Enemy
#Forgiveness
#Friend
#Than
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
- William Blake
#Delights
#Everything
#Holy
#Life
#Lives
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
- William Blake
#Art
#Beauty
#Exist
#Naked
#Never
#Without
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
#Bad
#Beats
#Intent
#Invent
#Truth
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
- William Blake
#Eyes
#Green
#Imagination
#Man
#Nature
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
- William Blake
#Done
#Great Things
#Great
#Meet
#Men
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
- William Blake
#Business
#Compare
#Create
#Reason
#System
#Will
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
- William Blake
#Art
#Cannot
#Good
#Hypocrite
#Minute
#Science
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
- William Blake
#Enough
#Know
#More
#Never
#Than
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
- William Blake
#Doors
#Inspirational
#Man
#Perception
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
- William Blake
#Green
#Hill
#Joy
#Laugh
#Voice
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
- William Blake
#Become
#Folly
#Fool
#He
#Wise
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
- William Blake
#Acts
#Breeds
#Desires
#He
#Who
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
- William Blake
#Become
#Folly
#Fool
#Will
#Wise
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.
- William Blake
#Eternity
#Joy
#Life
#Rise
#Sun
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake
#Bears
#Harvest
#Thankful
#Thanksgiving
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
- William Blake
#Doubt
#Go
#Moon
#Space
#Sun
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
- William Blake
#Divine
#I Am
#Love
#Me
#Romantic
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
#Bird
#High
#Motivational
#Own
#Wings
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
- William Blake
#Experiment
#Knowledge
#Method
#True
What is now proved was once only imagined.
- William Blake
#Imagination
#Imagined
#Now
#Once
#Only
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
#Eternity
#Flower
#Gardening
#Sand
#World
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake
#Bird
#Friendship
#Man
#Spider
#Web
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
- William Blake
#Act
#Evening
#Morning
#Night
#Sleep
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