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…
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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 sym…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by William BlakeIt 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.
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.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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.
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.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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…
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 difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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…
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.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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.
Opposition is true friendship.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.