"What is now proved was once only imagined."
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William Blake
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Quotes by William Blake
"Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
"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 Particulars."
"Opposition is true friendship."
"A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings."
"A Robin Redbreast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage.A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders Hell thro’ all its regions.A Dog starv’d at his Master’s GatePredicts the ruin of the State.A Horse misus’d upon the RoadCalls to Heaven for Human blood.Each outcry of the hunted HareA fiber from the Brain does tear."
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite."
"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
"Exuberance is beauty."
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."
"Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."
"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."
"What is now proved was once only imagined."