Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Quotes by William Blake
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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.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
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.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Exuberance is beauty.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
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.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Opposition is true friendship.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
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!
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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.
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