William Blake Quotes

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• If a thing loves, it is infinite.
• The true method of knowledge is experiment.
• 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.
• Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
• Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
• 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…
• Exuberance is beauty.
• The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
• The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
• 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…
• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
• 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…
• Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
• Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
• Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
• He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
• Every harlot was a virgin once.
• Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

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