The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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William Blake
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About William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbo…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by William BlakeThe hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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 is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
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 Parti…
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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. …
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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. …
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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 t…
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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.