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Thought Provoking Quotes by William Blake
- 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.
- What is now proved was once only imagined.
- To generalize is to be an idiot.
- Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
- The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
- Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
- 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.
- As a man is, so he sees.
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