Quotes by William Blake
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Every harlot was a virgin once.
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.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
