William Blake quotes Born: 11/28/1757 Died: 08/12/1827 Country: united_kingdom

• When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. (William Blake) [start]
• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. (William Blake) [sorrow/joy]
• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. (William Blake) [art/beauty]
• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. (William Blake) [imagination/universe/shadow]
• You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough. (William Blake) [more]
• The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite. (William Blake) [desire/being]
• I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect. (William Blake) [care/evil/care/fool]
• 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) [tears/joy/eyes/thing]
• Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth. (William Blake) [thing/truth]
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. (William Blake)
• There is a smile of love,
  And there is a smile of deceit,
  And there is a smile of smiles
  In which these two smiles meet. (William Blake) [smile/love/smile/smile]
• Active Evil is better than Passive Good. (William Blake) [evil]
• Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed. (William Blake) [truth]
• As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. (William Blake)
• The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough. (William Blake) [more]
• The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (William Blake) [water/mind]
• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. (William Blake) [face/light]
• Exuberance is beauty. (William Blake) [beauty]
• 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) [truth]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. (William Blake) [life/life]
• Great things are done when men and mountains meet. (William Blake) [men]
• Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. (William Blake) [more]
• He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. (William Blake) [desires]
• Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. (William Blake) [being/being/hatred]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• 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. (William Blake) [art/science/more/art]
• When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. (William Blake) [start]
• Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse. (William Blake) [art/money/money]
• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. (William Blake) [forgiveness]

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