William Blake Quotes

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• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
• To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity…
• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
• You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
• I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
• 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…
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
• 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…
• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
• Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
• When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
• Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
• 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…
• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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