Candle Quote by William Blake

“But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.”

William Blake

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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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Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

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God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

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Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

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Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

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Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

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Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress.

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A dead body revenges not injuries.

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