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"44 William Blake Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 28 November 1757. Died: 12 August 1827 | Poet |

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

Forgive Friend Easy Than
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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.

World Grain Heaven Flower
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Never Enough You Know
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Bird Soar Wings
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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.

Truth Sake Convincing Sake
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Road Excess Leads Palace
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained

Desire Restrain.weak
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Art Tree Life Science
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Glory Christianity Conquer Forgiveness
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What is now proved was once only imagined.

Imagined Proved Once Now
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Lives Eternity Sunrise
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To generalize is to be an idiot.

Generalize Idiot
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Great Things Men Mountain
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Always Ready Speak Man
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
Read Bible Night Black
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Weak Courage Strong Cunning
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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!
Name Joy Days Old
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

Sun Moon Doubt Immediately
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Sinister Person Enemy Start
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time
Eternity Love Production Time
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Every harlot was a virgin once.

Harlot Virgin Once
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Everything Live Life Delight
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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.

Love Seeketh Please Build
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Woe Sorrow Seek Relief
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Excessive Sorrow Joy Weeps
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Man Sees Formed Powers
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Foot Persists.folly Wise
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Hours Measured Clock Wisdom
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Who Desires Breeds Pestilence
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Prison.built Stone Law Brothel
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
True Method Knowledge Experiment
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Thankful Receiver Bears Harvest
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
Soul Sweet Delight Defiled
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Fool Sees Tree Wise
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Active Better Passive Good
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
Thing Loves Infinite
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

World Fiction Made Contradiction
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow

Imagination Eternal World Vegetable
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Face Light Star
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

Love Blind Joy Lawless
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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.

Bad Artist Good Bad
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Art Exist Naked Beauty
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Opposition is true friendship.
Opposition Friendship True
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Progression Attraction Repulsion Reason
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William Blake Quotes & Sayings