“Opposition is true friendship.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
Category: friendship
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
Category: good
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Man has no Body distinct from his
“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
Category: age
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Imagination is the real and eternal world
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
Category: imagination
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The weak in courage is strong in
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
Category: courage
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I must create a system or be
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
Category: business
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He who would do good to another
“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
Author: William Blake
Category: good
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The tree which moves some to tears
“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
Author: William Blake
Category: imagination
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He who would do good to another
“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
Author: William Blake
Category: science
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
Category: men
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What is the price of experience? Do
“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.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
Category: wisdom
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