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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.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

William Blake

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

Every harlot was a virgin once.

William Blake

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.

William Blake

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!

William Blake

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

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

William Blake

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

William Blake

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

William Blake

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

William Blake

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

William Blake

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

William Blake

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.

William Blake

One thought fills immensity.

William Blake

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

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

William Blake

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

William Blake

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

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.

William Blake

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

William Blake

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

William Blake

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

William Blake

Opposition is true friendship.

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

William Blake

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

William Blake

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

William Blake

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

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

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

William Blake

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

William Blake

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

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