“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
Courage
“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
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
Sympathy“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“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 glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
Money“Exuberance is beauty.”
Beauty“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
Music“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
God“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
God“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.”
Art“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
Religion“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
Thankful“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
Wisdom“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“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
Time“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Imagination“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“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Friendship“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