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William Blake

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Quotes by William Blake

"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."

- William Blake

Love

"Love to faults is always blind, / Always is to joys inclined, / Lawless, winged, and unconfined, / And breaks all chains from every mind."

- William Blake

Love

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

- William Blake

Balance

"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."

- William Blake

Compassion

"The busy bee has no time for sorrow"

- William Blake

Happiness

"The busy bee has no time for sorrow."

- William Blake

Happiness

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

- William Blake

Integrity

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

- William Blake

Relationships

"The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, With silent delight sits and smiles on the night."

- William Blake

Inspiration

"The Moon, like a flower in Heaven's high bower, with silent delight, sits and smiles on the night."

- William Blake

Inspiration

""Hail to thee, blithe spirit!/Bird thou never wert/That from Heaven, or near it,/Pourest thy full heart/In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.""

- William Blake

Inspiration

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

- William Blake

Motivation

"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."

- William Blake

Adversity

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

- William Blake

Creativity

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

- William Blake

Learning

"How can a bird that is born for joy sit in a cage and sing?"

- William Blake

Belief in Self

"No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings."

- William Blake

Belief in Self

"Ah! sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller’s journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go!"

- William Blake

Reflection

"If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny."

- William Blake

Wisdom

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

- William Blake

Gratitude

""The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.""

- William Blake

Gratitude

"He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise."

- William Blake

Joy

"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

Joy

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street."

- William Blake

Achievement

"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

Empathy

"The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow."

- William Blake

Independence

"Great eagles fly alone, and are not sucked up in the storm of factions."

- William Blake

Independence

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

- William Blake

Independence

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

- William Blake

Philosophy

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

- William Blake

Philosophy

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour."

- William Blake

Philosophy

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my propositions. And some see no nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

- William Blake

Imagination

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

- William Blake

Imagination

"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

Imagination

"To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

- William Blake

Imagination

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."

- William Blake

Nature

"The true method of knowledge is experiment."

- William Blake

Knowledge