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William Blake

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

-William Blake

age

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 Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

-William Blake

art

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

-William Blake

art

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

-William Blake

art

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

-William Blake

art

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

-William Blake

beauty

Exuberance is beauty.

-William Blake

beauty

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

-William Blake

business

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

-William Blake

courage

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

-William Blake

death

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

-William Blake

experience

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

-William Blake

forgiveness

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

-William Blake

forgiveness

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

-William Blake

friendship

Opposition is true friendship.

-William Blake

friendship

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 against Christians.

-William Blake

god

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

-William Blake

god

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

-William Blake

god

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 Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

-William Blake

good

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

-William Blake

good

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

-William Blake

great

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.

-William Blake

great

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.

-William Blake

happiness

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 see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

-William Blake

imagination

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

-William Blake

imagination

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

-William Blake

knowledge

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 rise.

-William Blake

life

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

-William Blake

love

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

-William Blake

men

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

-William Blake

men

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

-William Blake

men

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

-William Blake

men

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 hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

-William Blake

money

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

-William Blake

money

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

-William Blake

morning

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

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 Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Exuberance is beauty.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Opposition is true friendship.

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 against Christians.

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

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 Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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.

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.

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 see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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 rise.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

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 hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

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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