Inspiring Quotes by William Blake - Page 2

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"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"

"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"

"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 than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s"

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

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning"

"The true method of knowledge is experiment"

"I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!"

"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"

"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"

"One thought fills immensity"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion"

"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"

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

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

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