“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
Sympathy
“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
GoodAll Quotes by William Blake
“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
God“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.”
Great“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
Time“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“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
Truth“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.”
Travel“Exuberance is beauty.”
Beauty“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”
Travel“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
Art“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“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“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
Music“Opposition is true friendship.”
Friendship“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Forgiveness“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Imagination“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!”
Politics“The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
Wisdom“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Friendship“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
Religion