“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Morning
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
MenAll Quotes by William Blake
“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.”
Happiness“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
Truth“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.”
Money“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
Religion“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
Wisdom“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
Sad“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Forgiveness“Exuberance is beauty.”
Beauty“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
Men“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
Thankful“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.”
Love“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Friendship“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
Music“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.”
Imagination“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
Good“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.”
Truth“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
Sympathy“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
Great“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.”
Art