William Blake

“A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”

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

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

“The eye altering, alters all.”

“Every harlot was a virgin once.”

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

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”

“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”

“For every thing that lives is Holy.”

“When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? - The Tyger”

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

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

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

“A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions. A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A Horse misus’d upon the Road Calls to Heaven for Human blood. Each outcry of the hunted Hare A fi...”

“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.”

“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.”

“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”

“Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.”

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

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

“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

“Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.”

“And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”

“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”

“The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.”

“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”

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

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

“May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.”

“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”

“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.”

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

“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

“Lives in eternity's sun rise.”

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

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

“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.”

“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”

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

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

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

“You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.”

“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”

“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”

“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”

“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.”

“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.”

“Opposition is true friendship.”

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”

“As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.”

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

“It is right it should be so, Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go.”

“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”

“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.”

“Exuberance is beauty.”

“The cut worm forgives the plow.”

“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”

“He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.”

“Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”

“Life delights in life.”

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

“To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.”

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”