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William Blake
William Blake
English Poet
Born: Nov 28, 1757
Died: Aug 12, 1827
Art His Joy Love Man World
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning W. H. Auden William Wordsworth
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. William Blake
Enemy Become Always Sinister Friend Person Trying Means Your Start
What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake
Imagination Once Only Proved Now Imagined
Opposition is true friendship. William Blake
Friendship True Friendship True Opposition
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. William Blake
Wisdom Folly Hours Clock Measure Measured
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. William Blake
Thoughts Man Mind Never His Artist Heaven Who
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 Care Hell Despair Please Ease Hath Gives Another Builds Nor Itself Any Heaven
To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake
Idiot Generalize
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. William Blake
Life Everything Delights Holy Lives
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
People Money Cause Passion Hardships Thief Elsewhere Must Distress Seek Alleged Miser Never Greater His Than Want Endure Fortitude Many Therefore Honest Honest People
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. William Blake
You Man Speak Mind Will Ready Always Your Avoid Base
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
Worth Care Made Men Idiot Weak Weak Men Obscure Grand Which Explicit Necessarily
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. William Blake
World Imagination Universe Shadow Vegetable Faint Real Which Eternal
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. William Blake
Wise Fool Become Would Folly He His Persist
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 Good Science Hypocrite Plea Must Would Minute General General Good He Another Exist Scoundrel Cannot Flatterer Organized Who
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake
Politics Religion Theatre Pride Wife Church Cruelty Same Thing Brotherhood Dividing Demonstrations Exist Families Same Separate Reason Thing Two Harlot
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. William Blake
Joy Sympathy Laughs Excessive Sorrow
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
Beautiful Eyes Money Worn Sun Guinea More Miser Proportions Bag Than Use Grapes Filled Vine
If a thing loves, it is infinite. William Blake
Infinite Loves Thing
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake
Energy Delight He Eternal Breeds Who Acts Desires
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
Man Soul Age Distinct His Chief Five Senses Body Portion
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 Benefits Witness Will Assumed Lasting Jews Same Against Them Right Christians
Every harlot was a virgin once. William Blake
Every Once Harlot
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. William Blake
Man Eye Sees He Powers Formed
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 Love Better Too Much Too Loathsome All Things Mirth Most Than Much Fun Things
One thought fills immensity. William Blake
Intelligence Thought Immensity Fills
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. William Blake
Travel Dream Leaves Repose Travelers Among
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