William Blake Quotes

• 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

• To generalize is to be an idiot.

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• Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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

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• The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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

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• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

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• The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

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• The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.

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

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• The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

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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.

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• The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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• The eye altering, alters all.

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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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

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William Blake (148)

Birth:	28th November, 1757
Death:	12th August, 1827
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Painter, Poet

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