William Blake Quotes

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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake

Thanksgiving, Thankful, Harvest

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Flower, Heaven, Hands

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake

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, Another, Reason

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

Morning, Sleep, Evening

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake

Everything, Perception, Appear

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

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

Forgiveness, Enemy, Friend

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

Nature, Eyes, Joy

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.
William Blake

Angry, End, Friend

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake

Truth, Bad, Lies

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

Friendship, Bird, Web

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake

Wisdom, Road, Excess

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

High, Bird, Wings

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake

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, Art, Science

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

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake

Doubt, Sun, Moon

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Flower, Heaven, Hand

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

Wise, Fool, Same

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake

Black, Night, Read

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

Hate, Human, Liberty

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake

Love, Hate, Human

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

Eye, Formed, Powers

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake

Mind, Speak, Ready

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: November 28, 1757

Died: August 12, 1827

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