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William Blake


English
November 28, 1757
Poet
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Exuberance is beauty.


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Every harlot was a virgin once.


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Tags: Every Once
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.


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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.


William Blake
Tags: Good Than Better
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.


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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.


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Tags: Who He Acts
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.


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Tags: Old Rich Ugly
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.


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Tags: Who Will His
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.


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Tags: Man Same Wise
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.


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Tags: Would He His
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.


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Tags: Out Go Should
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.


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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.


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Tags: He Man Eye
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.


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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
Tags: See Kind Too
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
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Tags: Did End Grow
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.
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Tags: Money More Than
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 of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake
Tags: You Who World
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
Tags: Good Science Who