William Blake Quotes

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• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
• What is now proved was once only imagined.
• To generalize is to be an idiot.
• Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
• Opposition is true friendship.
• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
• 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…
• I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
• The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
• Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
• Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
• As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
• Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
• The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
• 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…
• Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
• 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.
• What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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